A Sub-Inspector of Police has been arrested on suspicion of maintaining close ties with ‘Kehelbaddara Padme’, a known member of an organised criminal gang.

Police Media Spokesman Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) F.U. Wootler confirmed that the suspect was taken into custody by officers of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID).

The arrested Sub-Inspector is attached to the Gampaha Division’s Crime Investigation Unit.

The arrest follows the recent extradition of Kehelbaddara Padme and four other gang members from Indonesia. Interrogations of those suspects led the CID to identify and take the Sub-Inspector into custody.