(UTV | COLOMBO) – The Deputy Chairman of the Mawanella Pradeshiya Sabha and two other PS members have been arrested by the police.
Police said they were arrested on a charge of threatening teachers during a protest and trespassing into a school recently.
The teachers in the Mawanella Education Zone yesterday staged a protest in front of the Mawanella Police demanding the arrest of the Deputy Chairman of the Mawanella Pradeshiya Sabha for forcibly entering the Mederigama Maha Vidyalaya in Mawanella on 3 November and threatening the parents and teachers who were staging a protest demanding that the Government resolve the teacher-principal salary anomaly issue.