MCNS alerts on consequences:

Violators of law w arned

*No basis to monster myth

*Puttalam calm after PC killing

*Criminals taking advantage

Sandasen MARASINGHE

The government will take legal action against those who take the law into their hands, damage public property and assault public officials, Media Centre for National Security (MCNS) Director General Lakshman Hulugalle said yesterday.

He said that certain groups are trying to change the existing peaceful environment in the country earned after a great effort, by attempting to create a commotion.

Hulugalle added that those who mislead the public would also be dealt with by law.

Hulugalle told the Daily News that it seemed some groups were getting organized in several areas and assaulted Police officers and security forces’ camps, taking the law into their hands which is also a crime under law.

He said that nobody can take the law into their hand in the name of a mythical creature that does not exist and commit crimes such as murder police officers or assault civilians and damage public property.

He added that nobody can assault, injure, hack or kill any one entering a village though he may be a stranger.

Hulugalle also stated that criminals like rapists and thieves etc are taking advantage of this situation and appealed to the public to act intelligently. Referring to the murder of a Police officer in Puttalam, Hulugalle said that it was pathetic that the police officers who visit areas to investigate complaints made by the people in the same area, have to suffer such a fate in the hands of these same people.

“How could the Police conduct investigations into these so-called unwanted elements when the people in those areas assault and kill the police officers.” He added that the same people complain that the police have failed to solve the problem. Hulugalle said the Police arrested the situation in Kahawatte.

“There was no ‘Grease Monster’. All rumours were initiated by a woman’s narration to her husband, who had a paramour. She had told her husband that she was thrown away by a mythical creature out of the house.” Hulugalle said that but the medical reports proved that she had a clandestine affair with some one else were which she admitted to the Police later.

Military Spokesman Brigadier Nihal Hapuarachchi said that normality had been restored in Puttalam. “People are attending to their day today activities. The Army and Police, including the STF are patrolling the area,” he said.