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A video footage of a Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) candidate who had unsuccessfully contested the last Local Government election for the Kuliyapitiya Pradeshiya Sabha, assaulting a teenage cricketer playing for a leading Kurunegala school is circulating in the social media.

The footage shows the victim who was a resident in the same area being assaulted by several individuals including a 16 year-old boy at Tissa Mawatha near Kuliyapitiya bus stand recently.

Police said that the incident had taken place following a dispute in college.

The victim, who was brutally assaulted using a shovel and a helmet, was admitted to the Kuliypitiya Base Hospital and later transferred to the Kurunegala Teaching Hospital. He was discharged from the hospital on yesterday.

Police said the 16 year-old student suspect had been arrested following the incident however the main suspect SLFP candidate and the others had fled the area.

The underaged suspect was ordered to be detained in a safe house by Kuliyapitiya Magistrate Ruwan Dhammika Dissanayake.

He was to be produced for an identification parade.

Police investigations are underway to arrest the other suspects. (Dinesh Upendra)


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  • ANTON Thursday, 03 May 2018 06:35 PM

    BEFORE ANYONE SAYS , I WILL SAY OTHER SEQUENCES OF HAPPENINGS ,......... THEY ARE ARRESTED AND QUESTIONED, RELEASED ON BAIL, ... REARRESTED, REMANDED...... RE-RELEASED ON BAIL.

    Nadu Thursday, 03 May 2018 07:30 PM

    thats the Srilankan way bro never going to change for next 1000 years

    malij Friday, 04 May 2018 02:03 PM

    This shows the caliber of the candidates who got the nominations from the front line parties despite taking big about need for clean people. They still opt for the underworld members, thugs and unscrupulous as their nominees and cover them when they get arrested for various crimes.


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