Girls who broke into a restaurant and stole toffee chocolates to Ranmuthugala

The court has ordered three girls from a children's home, who are accused of breaking into a cafeteria located at the Kalutara Vernon Fernando Sports Complex and stealing sweets, toffees, and chocolates worth nearly forty thousand rupees, to be detained at the Ranmuthugala Children's Home. Kalutara Chief Magistrate Mahesh Wakishtha issued this order on the 25th, and the accused are three girls aged 15 and 16 from a children's home in the Kalutara area.

Information reports that the suspected girls committed this theft by breaking a window and entering the said cafeteria on the night of the 24th. In this regard, a complaint was lodged with the police by Gulawitage Ganga Rajithamali, a 33-year-old woman residing on Sarananda Mawatha, Kalutara, who runs the said cafeteria.

Acting promptly on the complaint received, the police examined the CCTV camera footage installed at the location and subsequently arrested the three suspected girls. Investigating officers were also able to take into police custody the stock of stolen goods.

The Magistrate further ordered that a detailed investigation report regarding the incident be submitted to the court on March 09. Under the instructions of Kalutara Headquarters Chief Police Inspector Nalaka Gunasekara, a team of police officers, including Chief Police Inspector Dinesh Nishantha de Silva, the OIC of the Criminal Investigation Division, is conducting further investigations into this incident.