Colombo (News 1st): The Kandy Police arrested a man for impersonating a local politician and defrauding money promising to admit students to grade one classes in schools.

The suspect was arrested after the victims had filed a complaint with the Governor of the Central Province over the scam. The suspect is to be produced before the Kandy Magistrate’s Court today (March 1).

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