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Conspiracy to kill HC Judge:
Top level investigation to arrest more suspects
Panadura group correspondent
A top level investigation is underway on the instructions of Panadura
Magistrate Thusara Rajasinghe to arrest more suspects involved in the
conspiracy to kill Panadura Provincial High Court Judge Malanee
Gunaratne.
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Chronology
*Police receive fax message
regarding picketing campaign against the non-release of
murder suspects and suspects involved in drug trafficking on
bail.
*Police seize bundles of
posters brought to be handed over to participants of the
picketing campaign
*Police arrest 10 suspects
including three women, identified as suspects on bail on a
drug trafficking and extortion cases.
*Suspect makes full
statement giving details of the alleged conspiracy.
*Leader selected to fire at
the High Court Judge when she reported to Court.
*Contract to be given for Rs.
150,000 and a woman, a wife of a businessman agrees to
provide Rs. 50,000. |
The Colombo Division Crime Bureau and Panadura Police District
Special Crime Bureau are conducting the investigations.
The conspiracy was unearthened by Inspector Sarath Dahanayake,
Panadura Police District Crime Investigations with his officials who
arrested the suspects on suspicion.
They interrogated four suspects who transported posters for the
participants, organised a picketing campaign against the Panadura High
Court for non release of hardcore accused remanded in connection with
murders and drug trafficking.
When the case was called before the Panadura Magistrate Thusara
Rajasinghe on Friday March 20, Sub Inspector Pushpakumara of the
Panadura Police District Crime Bureau produced, another Prison Guard
Leslie Peiris of the Kalutara Prison before Court with a ‘B’ report. He
was remanded by the Magistrate.
Special instructions were issued to the Commissioner General of
Prisons Nissanka Wijegunawardena to keep the Prison Guard Leslie Pieris
at the Bogambara Prison.
The Magistrate has already remanded. R. Pothupitiya a jailor and S.
Wellawala, a Prison Guard of the Kalutara prison.
The police who took them into custody informed the magistrate that
two mobile phones had been recovered. Both suspects had taken calls to
outsiders.
One of the suspects had taken 270 telephone calls. Sub Inspector
Pushpakumara obtained permission from the Magistrate to conduct
investigations into 20 mobile phones used by some of he inmates of the
Kalutara prison and outsiders. The Police wanted to find out the actual
owners of the mobile phones.
When the case was called on Friday, March 20 Vajira Kavisinghe,
Attorney-at-Law representing the Panadura Bar Association with other
lawyers told the Magistrate that police should investigate all aspects
of the information that the Panadura Police unearthened from the
suspects in custody.
The hardcore criminals who had connections with prison officials have
become a threat to society. They wanted to kill Judges who do their duty
according to the law of the country.
The Magistrate called for a report regarding the investigations
conducted by the Panadura Police District Crime Investigations Bureau.
Officials of the Colombo Division Crime Investigations Bureau were not
present when the case was called.
The case will be called again on March 28. |
