Recent deployment of random ‘surveillance team’ of the Sri Lanka Corps of Military Police (SLCMP) have arrested a few soldiers, attempting to sell off a stock of rice and other dry rations of a camp to an outside trader in Gelioya, Gampola after the stock had been transported out on Saturday.
“SLCMP flying squads followed the vehicle carrying those Army dry rations closely and apprehended the suspects while dealing with a private trader in a closeby town for the sale of the stolen stock,” Sri Lanka Army said in a Media Communiqué.
SLCMP members immediately arrested those soldiers with the consignment and they were taken in for questioning, together with the Army vehicle.
If found guilty through a Court of Inquiry, he soldiers are to be discharged from the Army with immediate effect, in line with the Army Commander’s ‘zero tolerance’ policy on wrong-doers.
Further investigations are in progress.
