Police probing incident at Elephant House in Ranala

The Police have launched an investigation into an incident that had taken place at the Elephant House Beverage Company in Ranala, Kaduwela where its manpower employees had been allegedly threatened by some outsiders on Tuesday. Nugegoda Division SP Laksiri Geethal said the police were aware about the incident and that an investigation would be carried out to determine whether it was an act of sabotage. According to the reports, operations of the beverage company came to a standstill on Tuesday after a group of manpower employees refrained from reporting to work due to allege threats by an underworld gang leader.

Operations of the beverage company came to a standstill on Tuesday after a group of manpower employees refrained from reporting to work due to allege threats by an underworld gang leader

The management of the company is reported to have refused the request of gangster Urujuwa’s attempt to deploy two of his lorries to fill the shortage

It was reported that earlier, an underworld gangster known as ‘Samayan’ had been operating from prison by supplying manpower employees and transportation to the company.

However, after the assassination of Samayan, several businessmen have deployed five lorries and also employed manpower workers at the company.

It was reported that after the death of Samayan, an underworld gang led by ‘Urujuwa’ from Kaduwela had tried to control the manpower workers and lorries. As a result, two of the lorry’s were removed from the company following the assault of a businessman named Sarath, who provided lorries to the company two months ago.

The management of the company is reported to have refused the request of gangster Urujuwa’s attempt to deploy two of his lorries to fill the shortage. Then he alleged to have threatened the manpower workers to refrain from working.

Meanwhile, a senior official of the Company’s management said the matter had been settled.