A woman customer had railed at a political authority when he was inspecting a state-run shop in the Kataragama area and later a security officer of the shop had been interdicted for not taking timely action to prevent the scene.

 
The political authority had been questioning the manager of the shop whether they had obtained essential commodities in adequate quantities and whether they had fixed the prices of such commodities when a woman customer who happened to be among the shoppers had angrily shouted at the political authority. She had asked the political authority, “Ane mahattayo, oya kiyana gananata badu ganna tiyenne kohenda?” 

All those present at the shop, looked on stunned while the woman customer harangued the political authority at the top of her voice.

Later the security officer on duty at the shop had been interdicted charging that he had failed in his duty in preventing the incident, they say.