3 June 2022 10:12 am Views - 1086
The Weeraketiya Police was seeking public assistance to locate former Chairman of the Tangalle Urban Council Ravindu Wedaarachchi and his wife Nethmi Harindika Silva to arrest them in connection with obstructing duties of a police officer and alleged attempt of assault.
Police said a complaint was lodged with the Weeraketiya Police Station by a police sergeant attached to Expressway duties at the Bedigama interchange. According to the police, a driver who was loading a refrigerator in an unprotected manner into the back of a cab was about to enter Colombo from the Bedigama interchange on the expressway on Wednesday evening when a police sergeant on duty at the scene informed him that it was unsafe and dangerous and that he could not be allowed to enter.
Meanwhile, Ravindu reportedly shared on social media that a police officer at the scene had pulled him by his shirt and tried to hit him.
At that moment, the driver and the woman in the cab got angry and tried to interrupt the police sergeant’s duty and verbally attacked him with harsh words. The police sergeant has lodged a complaint with the Weeraketiya Police following the incident.
The driver of the cab was identified as former Chairman of the Tangalle Urban Council Ravidu Wedaarachchi and the woman next to him was his wife Nethmi Harindika Silva.
Ravidu Wedaarachchi is the son of SJB Parliamentarian Dilip Wedaarachchi.
Police said the video of the incident is being circulated on social media and that both suspects are avoiding the police.
Police said it is also an offence that anyone aiding and abetting a suspect wanted by the police to stay in hiding.
The police informed the public to provide information on the suspects and the cab (SGPG-4507) to the Weeraketiya OIC through
071-8591493 or the Weeraketiya Police Station 047-2246226.