Two aides of drug lord ‘Harak Kata’ arrested

The Special Task Force has arrested a woman and a man said to be associates of underworld figure Nadun Chinthaka alias ‘Harak Kata’, who allegedly gave the firearm to the shooter who targeted an informer of the Police Special Task Force inside the Mount Lavinia courts recently.

The woman is a resident of Vijitha Road in Nedimala Dehiwala. The Special Task Force has also received information that she was once associated with Harak Kata’s drug network. The woman is 29.

A gunman opened fire at a Special Task Force informant who was in the dock appearing in a case of embezzlement pending in the Mount Lavinia Court and fled the scene recently.

No one was injured in the shooting. It is suspected that the shooter missed the target as he was nervous.

Intelligence agencies have received information that the attack was carried out according to the plan of underworld criminal Harak Kata who is in Dubai.