Senior official’s house burglars arrested in 24 hours
Polgahawela Police on Monday arrested two drug addicts who broke into Home Affairs Ministry Senior Assistant
Secretary Wasantha Kumarasinghe’s house in Oruliyedda, Polgahawela and stole property worth Rs.463,000. The suspects were arrested with the stolen items within 24 hours of the receipt of the complaint from the public official. The official is currently residing at the Government quarters in Keppetipola, Colombo 5, and when he visited his home recently he had noticed that many items including the television, gas cooker, LP gas cylinder, electrical appliances, porcelain items and two bicycles had been stolen.
Investigations revealed that the burglars had entered the house by breaking the glass of a window of a washroom. The two suspects are aged 25 and 33. Following interrogation, the stolen items had been recovered from the shops they had been sold to.