11 June 2024 07:18 am Views - 48
By T.K.G. Kapila
An underworld gangster who had fled to the United Arab Emirates after killing a leader of a rival group popularly known as “Gampaha Pas Podda” was arrested last morning at the Bandaranaike International Airport when he returned to the country.
The 28-year-old suspect Etampola Arachchilage Avishka Madusanka was a resident of Kimbulapitiya in Negombo and a wanted criminal. Underworld gangster “Pas Podda|” had been killed in July 2022.
Gampaha Magistrate had imposed a ban on his travel aboard and last morning, the Immigration and Emigration Department officials identified him on arrival and arrested him.
He was handed over to the Gampaha Police for further investigation after OIC Airport Police CI S.P.J. Silva held the preliminary inquiry and recorded the suspect’s statement.