COLOMBO (News 1st) – The police said that the defence ministry has approved the three-month detention of the parliament employee who was arrested for alleged affiliations with the banned NTJ.

The suspect is a 45-year-old resident of Kandy who worked as an indexing officer at the parliament.

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