Wear Ishara Lakmal Saputhanthri was captured after he surrendered to Bakamuna Police taking after the episode and delivered under the watchful eye of the court today (27).
Police said that amid sessions, the suspect uncovered that the wrongdoing was conferred in retaliation as Priyantha had shouted at his guardians utilizing foul dialect.
Saputhanthri, 34, had expressed that he concealed and held up for Priyantha, otherwise called Weli Raju, before assaulting him with the hatchet to the back of the head, police said.
In the interim police have recouped the weapon utilized by the associates from close to the scene with the wrongdoing in Hathare Ela, Bendiwewa. Both the suspect and the hatchet were delivered under the watchful eye of the Polonnaruwa Court today.
Priyantha, who had experienced genuine wounds the assault, is presently getting treatment in the ICU of a private doctor's facility in Colombo while he has purportedly experienced surgery.
Police representative ASP Ruwan Gunasekara expressed that a unique examination concerning the episode is progressing, driven by the Polonnaruwa Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP).
Three unique police groups have been conveyed to the scene of the wrongdoing the previous evening keeping in mind the end goal to do examinations.
Priyantha Sirisena who was admitted to the Polonnaruwa Hospital after the asserted assault was carried to a private doctor's facility in Colombo yesterday.
Priyantha, an agent overwhelmingly occupied with sand mining, is a more youthful sibling of President Sirisena, who is right now on a four-day state visit to China.
