Beliatta Police have arrested the Beliatta Pradeshiya Sabha Chairman Siril Munasinghe and his brother Piyadasa Munasinghe for allegedly stealing 11 GI pipes belonging to the community water project.
The Chairman and his brother were arrested in a raid based on information received by the Police while 11 water pipes belonging to the Beliatta Mahila Parakum Community Water Reserve were cut into pieces and loaded into a lorry in 22 parts.
The Police said that when the stock was ready to be loaded into a vehicle last night, about twenty to thirty members of the community water project gathered there blocking the vehicle’s path, and informed the police about it. Since a large number of people had gathered at that place, considering the possibility of damaging the vehicle, the vehicle was taken to the Police Station with the stock of pipes, and the Chairman and his brother were called to the Police yesterday morning and arrested.
They were remanded till January 3 after being produced before Court yesterday.