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Rape murder case before magistrate today

by Nawalapitiya group correspondent

Police will be on alert in Nawalapitiya town today when the six men accused of raping and killing 23 year-old Solamale Umadevi in September 2001 are produced before the magistrate.

Last week when the suspects were produced, the Ceylon Workers Congress led a protest march of about a thousand people through the town calling for a just and fair trial in the case.

Umadevi was returning from a tuition class on September 12, 2001 when she was allegedly abducted by a group of men.

Her remains were discovered in a coffee plantation by the side of the Mahaweli river the following day. The young woman who lived in the Galaboda quarters of Imboolpitiya Estate in Nawalapitiya had been gang-raped and murdered, police say.

Nawalapitiya Magistrate Wimal Nambuwasam re-remanded the six suspects and ordered them to be produced in court today.

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