A tense situation had occurred near the Pamunugama Police Station last evening (Oct. 24) after a group of residents had protested in front of the premises.
They had claimed that two youths arrested by the police were brutally assaulted.
On Sunday (Oct.20), two suspects aged 20 and 24, had been arrested at their workplace over allegedly breaking into a house in the Bopitiya area of Pamunugama and stealing a gold necklace.
However, the parents and the villagers accuse the police officers of brutally assaulting these two youths, while asserting that the young men were not involved in the theft.
The assaulted youths were later admitted to the Ragama Teaching Hospital on the intervention of the OIC of Dungalpitiya Police Station.
The crowd had also dispersed after being assured by the Dungalpitiya OIC that justice would be served.
