A sergeant attached to the Moneragala police was yesterday arrested around 1.45 p.m., by the investigating officers of the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery and Corruption (CIABC), in the act of accepting a bribe of Rs 10,000 from a person who has been tried in the Moneragala Courts for possessing Gajamuthu.

According to SSP Neville Guruge, Director Investigations CIABC, the suspect sergeant, attached to the Crime branch of Moneragala police, had solicited Rs. 20,000 from the complainant promising that he would help him get aquitted from the case by getting witnesses to give evidence in his favour. The suspect had asked the complainant to pay him an advance of Rs 10,000 and the balance after he was discharged.

The suspect, identified as J. M. Abeywickrama Dissanayake was to be produced before the Moneragala Magistrate late in the afternoon yesterday.