A young man who came to see his father who was arrested and kept in the Passara police cell after a dispute, attacked the police station commander and caused trouble inside the police station.
The police have arrested a 23-year-old youth resident of Meeriyabedda, Weliwissa, Passara on suspicion of this, in the early hours of today.
The young man came to the police station and gave the mobile phone to the father to talk to the mother.
When the Police Station Officer saw a mobile phone being brought into the cell, he blamed it, and when he was about to take the mobile phone into police custody, the young man attacked the Police OIC and behaved riotously in the police station. At that time, the police say that this young man also took a mirror that was hanging in the police station and attacked the police officer with it.
Here, the police officers even had to put in a lot of effort to control this suspect. The police say that the suspect was arrested on charges of assaulting the police OIC, criminal coercion, and damaging government property.
