Sri Lanka, April 24 -- The Police investigating into a theft of pawned gold jewellery amounting to around Rs.70 million from a financial institution at Kalawana had arrested the loan officer and another at the same institution with the looted stock of jewellery within four hours after the incident.
The two officers had allegedly robbed three kilogrammes and 770 grams of gold jewellery and the stock had been found by the police buried in a paddy field behind the house of the gold loan officer.
Suranjith Bandara (33), the gold loan officer who was arrested for committing this theft, and Thivanka Jayasekara (26), who was arrested for aiding and abetting this theft, were presented to the Kalawana Magistrate's Court yesterday and were remanded...