Tour guide misguides tourist

4 April 2011 11:42 am Views - 6837

A local tour guide accompanying a tourist from Britain had shown a Hindu Kovil in Kalutara and had misguided the tourist into believing that Tsunami victims were housed in the Kovil after which he obtained cash  from the tourist as aid to those victims.

The Kalutara police probing this matter had obtained a statement from the Kurukkal of the Kovil.

The police have uncovered several incidents of tour guides leading unsuspecting tourists to various religious places of worship and under the pretext of assisting these places collecting money from them.

Kalutara police OIC Samantha Wedage and SI Suneth Santha of the Crime Investigation Branch are conducting further investigations in this regard.  (Sunil S Thanthiriarachchi)