OIC CAUGHT IN TIMBER CASE
The IP Bertie Udukumbura the OIC of Bibile Medagama Police Station had been interdicted with immediate effect, police said.
This was the outcome of an investigation made by ASP Wasantha Kandewatta of Moneragala into an incident where the OIC and a group of police officers of Medagama police station were allegedly involved in an illicit timber racket.
Earlier three police officers of Medagama were also interdicted on the orders of the DIG of Uva Province.
Police sources revealed that the suspect OIC and
This was the outcome of an investigation made by ASP Wasantha Kandewatta of Moneragala into an incident where the OIC and a group of police officers of Medagama police station were allegedly involved in an illicit timber racket.
other police officers of Medagama in civvies had been transporting logs by lorry and were apprehended by the range forest officers at Bibile.
At the time of the arrest the Police team had failed in their attempt to convince the forest officers that the stock of wood had been taken into custody by themselves. Thereafter on the instructions of the Moneragala SSP S. P. A. L. C. Gunawardene, the Moneragala ASP Wasan- tha Kandewatta had conducted an investigation and interdicted the OIC.
It is alleged that the suspected police officers are involved in this timber racket.