Kaduwela Municipal Councilor arrested for shooting at SAITM CEO
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Wednesday arrested a Municipal Councilor of Kaduwela in connection with the shooting at the Chief Executive Officer of South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine (SAITM) Dr. Sameera Senaratne last year.
Kaduwela Municipal Councilor Wilathgamuwage Don Aruna Lakmal Kushantha, 43, was arrested by the CID early this morning at his residence in Welivita, Kaduwela.
Dr. Senaratne was shot at while travelling in his car by two armed men on a motorbike wearing full-face helmets on Chandrika Kumaratunga Mawatha near the SAITM campus in Malabe on 5 February 2017. He escaped the shooting unhurt.
The CID obtained a 48-hour detention order to interrogate the suspect after producing him before Kaduwela Magistrate today.
Since police suspect th...