The Colombo Crimes Division states that former Deputy Minister Chandana Kathriarachchi, who was arrested with a firearm, a hand grenade and a inventory of ammunition, is being questioned below a 30-day detention order with the approval of the Ministry of Defence.
Throughout a search carried out on the sixteenth on the suspect’s residence on Wewanawatta Highway, Mampe, in Piliyandala, police recovered a hand grenade manufactured out of the country, two T-56 magazines, 103 rounds of .22 calibre ammunition, 31 rounds of seven.2 mm ammunition, 221 T-56 rounds, and a 16-bore Stevens-type firearm.
Appearing on info obtained by the Colombo Crimes Division {that a} T-56 firearm was within the possession of the previous minister, a group of officers from 5 items of the Division carried out a search of the two-storey home below a warrant obtained from the Kesbewa Justice of the Peace’s Court docket.
