Man arrested with stationery used by LTTE

Also rubber stamps like those of army intelligence

Kilinochchi Police revealed that a person had been arrested with rubber stamps resembling those used by the Army Intelligence Unit and stationery with letter heads used by Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) including some identity cards yesterday (2) at Vivekananda Nagar in Kilinochchi.

Police said that these items had been taken into custody during a raid carried out by the Police Special Task Force in Kilinochchi, on a tip-off received by the Army in Kilinochchi regarding a person who was said to be engaged in turning out false rubber stamps used by the security forces and stationery. They had been hidden in the suspect’s house.

Police added that they had recovered a rubber stamp similar to that used by the Army Intelligence Unit in Vavuniya, a rubber stamp resembling that of Human Rights Office, rubber stamps of Vavuniya and Kilinochchi Divisional

Secretariat and a rubber stamp used by the Magistrate of the Kilinochchi Courts when these items were in his possession. In addition, Special Task force had recovered an identity card prepared with the Eelam emblem of the LTTE organisation and a stock of stationery belonging to the LTTE including pen drives and several memory cards.

According to the police, no information has been revealed so far regarding a crime to be committed using these items but information had been received about some false documents that have been prepared using these seals. The suspect who has been arrested is a person (37) named Sellathurai Mohan Wijingaran, residing at Vivekananda Nagar in Kilinochchi.

Further investigations are being carried out by Kilinochchi Police and the Police Special Task Force and a special investigation is scheduled to be carried out on the suspect.