Tamil man arrested in Sri Lanka for providing false information to Channel 4

Sri Lanka police Criminal Investigation Department (CID) today produced a person arrested under suspicion for providing false information to Britain's Channel 4 before Candy Additional Magistrate Tikiri Jayatilleke.
The magistrate ordered the suspect to be detained for 90 days for further investigations.

The suspect Kandavanam Jegatheeswaran, an ethnic Tamil, who has arrived from UK, was arrested on June 30 under information provided by a Muslim businessman, police sources said.

A special police team made the arrest, sources said.