The Nuwara Eliya Magistrate’s Court has ordered the Police to arrest the General Secretary of the Ceylon Workers’ Congress (CWC), the Minister of Water Supply and Estate Infrastructure Development Jeevan Thondaman and to produce him before Court.

This order has been issued after the Nuwara-Eliya Police reported facts to the Court yesterday (22), regarding the incident where Thondaman had allegedly stormed into the Pedro Tea Factory, controlled under Kelani Valley Plantations PLC, along with a group of his supporters on 30 May. 

Although the Police informed the suspects involved in the incident including Thondaman, in writing, to appear before the Court yesterday, they had failed to do so.  Therefore, the Nuwara Eliya Acting Magistrate has ordered the Police to arrest the suspects including Thondaman and to produce them before Court.