Four JVP members arrested while pasting posters

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Police arrested several members of JVP yesterday when they were pasting posters on the party’s national convention scheduled for Thursday (10).

The Moratuwa Police have arrested four Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) members around 2 a.m. when they were pasting posters and the party’s media unit says the members have been arrested and detained without giving any reason.

Meanwhile, Colombo Municipal Councilor and JVP member Hemantha Weerakoon has lodged a complaint with the Kirulapone Police about another incident that had taken place yesterday.

Weerakoon had made a complaint to the police under CIB 246/77 about the destruction of posters pasted by the JVP on billboard reserved for posters.

He has said that the thugs who had removed the posters when inquired had told him that they were following “orders from the top.”

(Colombo Page)