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A British national officer during a tour made in Sri Lanka had faced an incident last 24th which has created an uproar in the social media these days.

This person called Adam Kelvin who is serving a certain human relief project had been on a tour in Ratnapura area recently and
had secured Vallapatta said to be parts of sweet-smelling wood, and later had travelled to other locations and had finally returned to the hotel he was lodging in Colombo in a taxi passing a spot in Wellampitiya. When thus travelling in a somewhat dark by-lane towards evening a person in another vehicle had stopped his vehicle and had approached him and said that he was suspicious that the Britisher was taking cocaine with him and that they were from the CID and had stopped him saying that they need to inspect the vehicle.

On that occasion though the driver of the vehicle had stopped the vehicle and the foreigner had demanded to peruse the identity card to allow any inspection, the referred to person had refused to comply. After repeating his request on and on saying that permission cannot be given without the identity card, he had beat a retreat when a similar person had after that stopped the vehicle and had said that he wants the baggage checked since he is from the police.

On this occasion too though the foreigner has asked for the identity card, when this person who called himself from the CID too appeared not able to be in possession of it and he also had avoided the situation. This person has then got into the vehicle and had instructed the driver that the vehicle be taken to  Wellampitiya Police. However the foreigner had refused to do so. He says that since there is nothing illegal in his possession such an action  not be taken. In that instance this second person too gets down from the vehicle and has fled.

After this incident, the foreigner goes to his hotel when it is police officers with uniforms who arrive at the hotel saying that he is to be taken into custody. They get down to inspecting his luggage and had pointed out to him that there are over 3 kilos of Vallapatta and thus he was arrested. The Britisher who explains everything as to how he bought those exclaims that he was not aware that those were illegal in Sri Lanka. Whatever it is, the police arrests him and takes him away.

This human relief officer who had been displaying all this phenomena in its entirety to his comrades over a video clip had requested that the British High Commission be made aware of this and in turn the attention of that office has been drawn towards the incident concerned as to what was happening.

The police has gone to the hotel where the foreigner was residing to nab him on a tip off received by some person; but not because it was not possible to arrest him by the CID and that the police was later on his track as a result, it was afterwards revealed. As such, the Britisher was about to be preyed upon by a group of racketeers and as their plan had not worked out; it appears that the police had nabbed him. As everything was taped across Facebook Live, it looks that the racketeers had altered their strategies.

Who these CID police officers who said that this Britisher was taking cocaine with him and had got hold of him while on his way when the CID in fact was not connected to this incident, is a mystery. What the police media spokesman said was that an investigation would be conducted on this matter. News First has made a search in this connection and on inspecting the house linked to the number of the vehicle in which the individuals who said that they were from the CID had come, it was found that this vehicle belonged to a certain solitary individual only. This individual says that on certain occasions this vehicle is taken away by his friends.

The driver of the vehicle in which the British national was travelling at the moment of this incident speaking some sentence or two in Tamil creates a suspicion that under his instructions this particular band of looters may have taken on the guise of the CID. The video related to the incident, from below