Colombo (LNW): The Horana Magistrate Court has warranted the arrest of R.G.A. Wimalaweera, former Commissioner General of Labour and current Secretary to the Ministry of Labour, in connection with the death of five persons at a chemical waste station of a rubber factory in Horana area.
This was when the case was taken up yesterday (24).
These deaths had occurred as the five persons had fallen into a chemical waste tank in the factory, and Wimalaweera is accused of influencing a former factory inspection engineer in the Kalutara district to produce false evidence pertaining to the incident as the then Commissioner General of Labour.
Accordingly, the Magistrate Court has warranted Wimaraweera’s arrest and ordered that the suspect be produced in Court and that the operation be executed within seven days through the Inspector General of Police (IGP).
