Asitha alias Banda, a prominent underworld member has been hospitalized after a shootout with the Police Organized Crimes Division in Oruwala, today. 

He has been admitted to the Athurugiriya hospital with serious injuries, eye-witness accounts said. 

The underworld member is believed to be a close associate of underworld leaders 'Makandure Madhush' and 'Angoda Lokka'. 

The shootout, according to the Police, took place when the officers of the Organized Crimes Division conducted a raid to arrest the underworld member. 

The shootout had reportedly broken out near the Lanka Steel Corporation building, in the Athurugiriya area.