Sri Lanka, Dec. 27 -- The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has obtained a 72-hour detention order to further question former Minister Douglas Devananda, who was arrested yesterday in connection with a missing pistol, said police.

Devananda, who was arrested by the CID, was produced before the Gampaha Magistrate's Court today (27).

He was taken into custody last evening (26) by CID officers in connection with an incident in which his personal firearm reportedly fell into the hands of members of an organised criminal gang.

It is reported that the former minister was arrested in connection with an investigation into an incident in which a firearm, which was provided to then minister Devananda by the Sri Lanka Army for his personal ...