
A Police Constable attached to the Special Protection Division and another individual from Thalawathugoda have actually been arrested for presumably helping suspended IGP Deshabandu Tennakoon in hiding from February 27 to March 19, according to the Police Spokesman.Tennakoon, who went through an arrest warrant in connection with a shooting event near a hotel in the Pelena location of Weligama in 2023, surrendered to the court on March 19 after evading arrest for nearly 20 days.He has actually been remanded till April 3 and is presently being held at the Dumbara Prison in Kandy.Previously, the Matara Magistrates Court had previously released an arrest order for eight law enforcement officers, consisting of former officers of the Colombo Crimes Division (CCD) and former IGP Deshabandu Tennakoon, naming them as suspects in the shooting incident that occurred in front of the W15 Hotel in the Pelena location of Weligama, Matara, on December 31, 2023.