A soldier who attempted to sell arms in Nivithigala, Karawita was arrested yesterday.
The soldier was taken into custody by the Ratnapura Police with weapons, while he was returning home in Nivithigala, Karawita for the Sinhala and Tamil New Year.
Ratnapura Police said that the suspect was in possession of a revolver, a gun and fifteen bullets used for T-56 guns, manufactured in Sri Lanka, obtained from the Army base in Vavuniya where he served.
The thirty-year-old soldier named Neil Wasantha Kumara Nandasena was produced before the Ratnapura Magistrate Courts yesterday.
Ratnapura Police is investigating.