2 December 2018 09:17 am
Police said the robbers who were dressed similarly to policemen had entered a house at Araliyapura, Arawwala in Pannipitiya on November 5 and assaulted the owner of the house to rob gems and diamonds.
They said a foreign national who was in the house to buy gems and diamonds at the time of the incident had also been kidnapped by the robbers.
Matara Malli who is a resident of Rotumba, Matara was arrested by the officials of the Mirihana Special Crimes Investigation Unit near a fuel station at the Maliban Junction, Ratmalana yesterday evening.
He would be produced in the Nugegoda Magistrate's Court today.(Darshana Sanjeewa)