Traffic police officer suspended for assaulting two youths

A video footage shared by Batticaloa District MP Shanakiyan Rasamanickam shows a traffic cop assaulting two youths travelling on a motorcycle in Eravur.

 

Responding to the MP Rasamanickam, the Public Security Minister Sarath Weerasekara said the officer involved in the incident had been interdicted.

 

The officer was measuring an accident on the road using tape and two youths travelling on a motorcycle had gone past at speed dragging the tape for nearly 500 yards without stopping.