Eight arrested for stripping, assaulting monk and two women

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Eight individuals were arrested by the Nawagamuwa police today over the assault on Pallegama Sumana Thera and two women inside a house at Bomiriya, Rassapana in Nawagamuwa.

Police said four individuals were arrested and released on police bail on a previous day after the monk had complained that when he and a woman related to him and her daughter were staying inside a house, a group of youth who had forcibly entered the house had assaulted them and caused damages to the furniture in the house.

The eight suspects who were arrested today are to be produced before the Kaduwela Magistrate's Court.

Public Security Minister Tiran Alles had ordered Western Province DIG Deshabandu Thennakoon and the Nawagamuwa OIC to arrest and implement the law against the suspects who had taken the law into their own hands and assaulted the monk and the two women. (Buddhika Kumarasiri)

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DOT Saturday, 08 July 2023 04:28 PM

Good move! They canno't take the law to their hand!

Arnold Saturday, 08 July 2023 04:36 PM

But Gnanasara used to openly call Sinhala people to take the law into their own hands and police used to allow it in so many instances.

Lanka Saturday, 08 July 2023 05:41 PM

No one should be allowed to take the law into their hands ..the law of land must respected

DOT Saturday, 08 July 2023 08:01 PM

A good move !

Why hurt our clergy? Saturday, 08 July 2023 08:03 PM

These are Poojaneeya, Wandneeya priests in our society. Why hurt them? Was there any screaming from the house they were staying?

Ram Sunday, 09 July 2023 11:35 AM

Only its allowed to take law into public hands to remove elected president and to crown defeated one by public.

NIghtOwl Monday, 10 July 2023 12:56 PM

This is called Darma adi in tamil.. By the way, these guys must be disciples of Gnanasara.

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Eight arrested for stripping, assaulting monk and two women

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