Based on a complaint lodged by a resident of Hulannuge, Investigation Officers of the Commission arrested a Beat Forest Officer attached to the Hulannuge Beat Forest Office on January 12, 2026. According to the complainant, the officer had solicited a bottle of arrack and Rs. 30,000 as a bribe for refraining from instituting legal action against the complainant for cultivating in the portion of his four-acre land allocated to the Nelumwewa Yaya forest reserve. The arrest was made inside the Hulannuge Beat Forest Office while the suspect was accepting the said bribe.