Hambantota Mayor Eraj Fernando arrested over assault
Date
9/19/2021 11:18:22 PM
(MENAFN- Colombo Gazette) Hambantota Mayor Eraj Fernando was arrested today for assaulting two people.
He was arrested by the Bambalapitiya Police after being accused of entering private property in Bambalapitiya and assaulting two security officers.
The Mayor was later released on Police bail.
Fernando had been sentenced to jail in 2019 for threatening a group of United National Party (UNP) MPs.
The mayor brandished a pistol at a group of MPs when they visited the Mattala International Airport in 2014 on a fact-finding mission.
Eraj Fernando later claimed that it had been a toy pistol. (Colombo Gazette)
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