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Strike if justice is not served to CCA members beaten up when checking for hoarded eggs
The All Lanka Consumer Investigation Officers’ Association has threatened to launch a countrywide strike unless justice is served to their members who were beaten by a group of armed men when the officers tried to visit a private farm at the Narammala Bihal market to check whether they had hoarded stocks of eggs.
Chairman of the Association Kosala Ranganath told the media, on Saturday, that his fellow officers of the Kurunegala District Office of the Consumer Affairs Authority had been attacked on Thursday (04) by a group of armed men when the officers visited a private animal farm, on a tip off that the farm owners had hoarded eggs.
The CAA officers injured in the attack have been hospitalised.Later, the Narammala Police, who conducted an investigation, arrested five suspects and produced them before the court. The suspects were remanded until 10 May.Ranganath says that if the safety of their officers was not ensured, they would resort to trade union action.
