Police Inspector arrested for robbing phone

W.C.B. Fernando Puttalam Corr

A Police Inspector who is alleged to have stolen a cellular phone and later presented it to a woman has been arrested by the Dankotuwa police. The Sub Inspector who lost his cellular phone during the recent Presidential Election was deployed with the suspect Police Inspector on special election duty at Chilaw.

The SI found his phone missing during the special duty days.

Dankotuwa police recently found a woman using the lost phone and arrested her. She had told the police that the particular Police Inspector had given it to her. Investigations by the Dankotuwa police under the direction of Chilaw SSP C.E. Edirisinghe are continuing.