A Sub-Inspector attached to the Special Crime Division of Bandarawela Police Station was arrested on 06.10.2020 by the Investigation Officers of CIABOC on a complaint received from a person of Kanupelella, Badulla on alleged receiving a bribe of Rs.300,000/-. The suspect had solicited the bribe from the complainant to assist in releasing the complainant who had named as the 12th accused of a case proceeding in the Magistrate Court, Welimada and to alter as a state witness and furthermore to abstain from naming the complainant as a suspect of a case proceeding in the Magistrate Court, Kegalle.