A mobile phone used to provide information for the murder of Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia Municipal Council member, Ranjan de Silva was found in a canal in Ratmalana, today (26).
The mobile phone was recovered from the Sylvester Canal near the Ratmalana Railway Station during a search conducted by the Criminal Investigation Department and Navy divers.
A suspect alleged to have supplied information for the murder, when interrogated by the CID, has said that he had given the phone to a friend to be discarded.