Acting on a tip-off, the Peliyagoda police recently arrested two soldiers attached to two army detachments close to Colombo for stealing weapons and selling them to criminals.
A underworld figure already in custody had revealed the soldiers’ involvement in the racket, police said.
He has told the interrogators that the two suspects sold T-56 assault rifles at Rs. 300,000 each but he did not know how many rifles they had sold to underworld elements.
