Election laws will be upheld strictly in the post-election period Police Media Spokesperson SP Ruwan Gunasekara said. According to Gunasekara all rallies, processions and political gatherings continue to be banned today. “We have directed all police stations to record and report any such activities,” he said adding that suspects in connection to these incidents will be identified and reported to courts.
Police arrested 39 people including 8 candidates for election law violations during the polling period of the local government elections held yesterday.
According to the Police many of those nabbed were arrested for taking photographs of the ballot paper at the polling station. These incidents were reported from the Moragalla, Pujapitiya, Aralaganwila, Swarnajayanthipura, Aswedduma and Kuliyapitiya. Two out of the seven reported incidents were from the Aswedduma area in Kurunegala the Police said.
Returning officers of the polling centres where these incidents occurred had handed over the suspect and the mobile phones of the election law violators to the Police officers on duty at the centres after which they were arrested.
Meanwhile, other suspects were arrested for various offences ranging from distribution of propaganda material, transporting voters to polling stations, putting up posters and strewing party logos on roads leading to polling stations.
“All arrested suspects will be produced before the respective magistrate's courts,” Police Spokesperson SP Ruwan Gunasekara said adding that orders were dispatched to all officers on duty to arrest all election violators irrespective of who they are.
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