Around 200 villagers had got together to assist the police to arrest them.5 male students and one female student who had gone to take a dip in the Mahaweli river had misbehaved under the influence of liquor. The students who were so high on liquor had also gone to the extend of taking nude photos of the girl.
The villagers had informed 119 police emergency unit and had managed to detain them by puncturing their tires of the motor bikes.
Residents also reported that the students had thrown the mobile phone which they used to capture the nude photos of the female student, in to the canal.
The Peradeniya police had arrived and the students were taken for medical examinations and it was revealed that the students were drunk. Later the students who are from Meegalewa, Aranaayake, Galnewa, Boralesgamuwa, were advised and released and the female student a resident of Kandy, Katugastota area was handed over to her brother.