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19 March 2024

Postman on duty with lover parts with Dh8k

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Colombo: Sri Lankan Police has arrested a 31-year-old man for allegedly blackmailing a postmaster and demanding [Sri Lankan] Rs300,000 (Dh8236), reported ‘Gossip C Lanka’.

The suspect caught the postmaster in his official van with his lover. The suspect threatened the postmaster that he has clicked pictures of him with his lover and would reveal them to his wife.

The worried man immediately handed over Rs20,000 that was with him. And promised the suspect to make arrangements for the rest of the demanded sum. However, in the meantime, he informed cops, who accompanied him to the location and arrested the suspect red-handed while accepting the rest of the amount.

The suspect will be produced at Peradeniya court, while cops continue investigation.

Meanwhile, in a separate incident in Sri Lanka a stabbed a trishaw driver for misbehaving with her teenaged daughter, reported ‘Mawbima’.

 The 17-year-old who was returning from her tuition class was offered a lift to her home by the driver. However, when she entered his vehicle, she suspected his intention and so jumped out of the trishaw and headed into a boutique nearby.

Her mother upon hearing her daughter’s ordeal, grabbed a knife and went looking for the driver and stabbed him.

The 21-year-old driver is receiving treatment for stab wounds., while Tissamaharama police is investigating the case.