Gold necklace snatched, swallowed to avoid arrest
An individual who robbed a woman of her necklace and swallowed it to avoid arrest was produced before Nawalapitiya Magistrate Lasanji Ratnayaka and remanded. The magistrate ordered the Prison officials to administer him purgatives and recover the necklace.
The suspect had waylaid and robbed a woman of her necklace and her mobile phone and fled from the scene. However, Nawalapitiya Police, who initiated investigations, arrested the suspect, but he denied any involvement in the robbery. Police officials who suspected him of having swallowed the necklace subjected him to X-ray examination to trace the necklace in his stomach.
Police told court that the suspect was a reconvicted criminal who had been involved in several similar incidents earlier. They said that the suspect was fleeing through Hapugasthalawa and Ketabulawa to Harangala area when the police arrested him.
A police team under OIC Nawalapitiiya Police Harendra Kalugampitiya had conducted investigations and arrested the suspect.
