Petrol-shed quarrel at Kurunegala

"Pump too short to fill petrol' .... Fracas for having asked to reverse a bit  struck with a club .... worker hospitalised (video)
These days certain conflicts take place without rhyme or reason. There are cruel people who would take clubs into their hands and try to go into a fight, and it has become a common factor in such cases. It is the innocent who are at the receiving end in such instances. Recordings seen on a CCTV camera at a petrol-shed in Kurunegala recently happens to be such a case. 


A certain van which had parked on the wrong side had asked the worker to pump petrol and since the pump was not long enough, the worker had requested that the van be reversed when the occupants of the vehicle had got into a rage and had started using clubs. The individual who received this beating said, "They were highly intoxicated with liquor .... I knew from their talk. I told them that when the vehicle is in that position, petrol could not be filled ... that the pump was not long enough .... so to take the vehicle back. Then a person from inside the vehicle got down and came towards me and started scolding me in filthy language. Then that person broke the two number plates of the vehicle and after putting them inside the van, brought a big pole. Then he started assaulting me with that club without stopping. When I got that hammering from the club I fainted and fell down. When I came to my senses I was in hospital".

The petrol-shed worker who sustained serious injury in this connection was admitted to the Teaching Hospital of Kurunegala. The victim is a youth, Perumbadage Irosh Ravindra from Kohilegedera in Attanapitiya area.  

Whatever it is, after this assault, mother nature has given the assailants the right royal treatment.

Subsequent to this assault, this vehicle which had attempted to flee had struck a wall along Mihindu Mawatha which stood in the midst of Kurunegala town.

Later, police officers who arrived on the scene had taken one person who was travelling in that van into custody. The person arrested for having assaulted and injured a worker in the petrol-shed on suspicion and had been remanded the following day until 17th according to orders of Chief Magistrate, Kurunegala. The person so remanded is a resident of Theliyagonna area in Kurunegala. The police are still on the lookout for the other suspect in connection with the assault concerned.

Police say that it was possible to easily identify the suspects as a result of the CCTV cameras fitted at the petrol-shed of how the victim was assaulted.

The CCTV scenes, from BELOW

Report -- Janaka S. Balalla / Sunil S. Pellandeniya