Three-wheeler driver arrested for selling two Ella Odyssey tickets for Rs. 28,000.

The Kandy Divisional Criminal Investigation Unit has arrested a three-wheeler driver who booked two Ella Odyssey train tickets worth Rs. 4,000 online and sold them to two British women for Rs. 28,000 each.

The suspect was arrested based on a tip-off received by the State Intelligence Service.

Police investigations have revealed that a driver working in the tourism industry had given the three-wheeler driver the two tickets to sell to the two British women.

The three-wheeler driver had told the police that he would receive Rs. 5,000 for each ticket sold in this way.