Beauty salon where Underground Banda was shot dead ... set on fire

Beauty salon where Underground Banda was shot dead ... set on fire

The beauty salon down Oruwala Road, Athurugiriya where underground leader Tanil Bandara Dharma Shri alias Bandara was shot dead has been set on fire during night time on last 9th, Athurugiriya Police say.

The said beauty salon was situated on the top floor of the building which housed the People's Bank and

as a result of the fire all equipment inside the the salon were reduced to ashes. It was 34 year old Tanil Bandara Dharma Shri, a father of one child living in Moratuwahena area in Athurugiriya, supposed to be an adherent of Angoda Lokka who was murdered last 17th while Manjula Sanduni a 41 year mother of one child, happened to be the owner of this beauty salon and she is in remand prison and the police say that she is supposed to have given all support for the murder concerned. She had been arrested on the information secured by Mirihana Special Crimes Unit and after being produced before Kaduwela Magistrate Court was sentenced to remand prison.

The door of the beauty salon which was run by her was broken open by some people and after gaining entrance had set fire to all equipment inside it and had been destroyed. Police say that some minor damage has been sustained by the building too. The crimes section are conducting investigations under instructions of Athurugiriya Officer-in-Charge Police Inspector Mr. Sanjeewa Mahanama.

Report -- Airangi Edirisingha