(COLOMBO) – The police in Sri Lanka’s hill capital of Kandy were called into settle a bizarre case where two married women had ditched their families and eloped to share a same-sex relationship.
One woman is a teacher aged 29 and the other a housewife aged 34 and residents of Wattala and Kandana situated on the outskirts of the island’s commercial capital of Colombo.
The pair struck up an intimate relationship after the housewife would drop her child at the school in which her lover taught.
On May 30 the two women decided to elope triggering a country-wide police alert as their husbands complained to the local police on the missing women.
On Monday this week an alert off-duty policeman spotted the pair close to a Buddhist temple in Kandy and they were subsequently taken to the local police station for questioning.
Kandy is situated some 120 kilometres away from Colombo City.
The husbands were informed and they turned up at the police station along with their respective children to collect their wives.
However the women refused to go with their respective families and pleaded with the police to leave them alone.
However after much persuasion by the police and the two husbands the two women tearfully parted from each other and returned home to their families.
