Com sets, GP systems detected

Ranil Wijayapala and Prasad Poornamal

COLOMBO: A stock of 106 i-com hand sets and six Global Positioning Systems were detected in Chilaw yesterday when they were transported in a Puttalam bound bus from Colombo, Police said yesterday.

Police detected these 106 i-com hand sets which were packed inside two baggages belonging to the passenger when they searched the baggages in Chilaw around 2.15 p.m. yesterday, Chilaw HQI CI T.M. Wijeratne told the Daily News.

The Police has made this detection on an information given to the Police about a suspicious passenger by another passenger travelled in the same bus. The i-com hand sets are commonly used by the LTTE for inter-communication purposes among LTTE cadres.

“The suspect is a resident from Veppankulam in Vavuniya and he had got into the bus from Wattala area,” CI Wijeratne added.

A month back Police detected i-com sets and a base set in Gunasinghapura, Pettah few weeks back after searching an abandoned parcel on an information given by a civilian.

Police investigations later revealed that the communication sets were imported by a person in Dehiwela to be handed over to the LTTE later in Vavuniya.