Army personnel serving Chunnakam area in Jaffna, assisted by alert civilians last Monday (29) night caught six young thieves red-handed while they were stealing gold and brass valuables from Inuvil Kandaswamy Hindu temple, Jaffna.
Army troops after arresting those culprits, Yogathasan Muralithas, Yogathasan Soundrathas, Yogathasan Katpuharasa and Yogathasan Mayuran of Chullipuram west, Gajendrakumar Nageshwaram and Gajendrakumar Piyeskaran, all of them in the age range of 17-24 years, handed them over to the Chunnakam Police for further investigations and onward procedures.
In the recent past, a series of thefts that occurred in the peninsula’s Siththankerny Sivam Kovil, Mullai Vairavar and Muththukumar Maheswari Kovils in Waddukkoddai, Ponnali Siththivinayagar Kovil and Chankanai Kudaththu Manomani Kovil, were blamed on the Security Forces and most of them went undetected.
Some Jaffna-based media even went to the extent of blaming the Security Forces for those thefts and loss of valuables from those sacred places, implying that the Security Forces have had a hand in those thefts.
Following interrogations, the Chunnakam Police arrested a Muslim trader, Mohammad Thahaniya of Puttalam, having admitted that he bought some of those stolen valuables from the arrestees several weeks ago. A section of those valuables, it was revealed, have also been sold to some Jaffna businessmen for lucrative sums. Some of those metal statues and the suchlike were found dismantled into pieces or melted to be beyond identification when they were recovered, the Police have told the Army.
Police were to produce all the suspects before court soon after those investigations are over.
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