Sri Lanka, April 19 -- The man who was sentenced to death for brutally killing Dr. Wadu Arachchige Amarasiri, a CEB engineer due to an affair, he had with his wife and had been in hiding for 34 years was arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) from Pugoda yesterday.

He was arrested on a tip off received to a CID Police Sergeant. The convict, Colambage Sarathchandra Sumanasekera alias Nandana Sumanasekera had been working as a security officer of a leading company.

This convict with the support of his wife had dismembered the body of the CEB engineer and hid it in a barrel. His wife was also arrested by the CID in February in Bandaragama. Both were sententenced to death following a prolong trial.

Investigators have found...