Kalutara PS chairman, office assistant arrested for bribery

Athapattu BANDARA

The Bribery or Corruption Commission yesterday arrested Kalutara Pradeshiya Sabha chairman and an office assistant when they were accepting a bribe of Rs. 3 million from a businessman for granting permission to develop an illegal land at Nagoda in Kalutara.

The suspects were arrested at the PS chairman’s office on a complaint made by a businessman in Kalutara.

The raid was carried out by the Director of Bribery or Corruption Luxshmi Jayawickrama under the directive of the chairman of the Commission, former Supreme Court Judge Jagath Balapatabendi.

The bribe had been accepted by the suspect for the development and construction of an entry road to a property owned by the businessman in Delgahawatta, Hataraman Handiya, Nagoda in Kalutara. The suspects were to be produced before the Colombo Chief magistrate’s Court.