අද දින සමාජ මාධ්ය ජාලාවල සැරසරන පහරදීමට සම්බන්ධ වී ඇත්තේ ජ්යෙෂ්ඨ නියෝජ්ය පොලිස්පති රන්මල් කොඩිතුවක්කු මහතා බව මේ වනවිට අනාවරණය වී තිබේ.
ඒ සම්බන්ධයෙන් මේ වනවිට පරීක්ෂණයක් ආරම්භ කොට ඇති බව දැනගන්නට තිබේ.
මෙහිදී පොලිසිය පාර්ශවයෙන් ප්රකාශ වී ඇත්තේ අදාළ පහර කෑමට ලක්ව ඇති රියැදුරා බීමත්ව සිට ඇති බවකි.
කෙසේවෙතත් රන්මල් කොඩිකුවක්කු මහතා මීට පෙර ජ්යෙෂ්ඨ පොලිස් අධිකාරීවරයකු වශයෙන් සිටියදීද මෙවැනිම ආකාරයේ පහරදීම් කිහිපයක් සම්බන්ධයෙන් මාධ්ය තොරතුරු වාර්තා කොට තිබිණ.
ඒ සම්බන්ධයෙන් අධිකරණය හමුවේ නඩුවක්ද එකල ගොනුව තිබිණ.
මීට පෙර කොඩිතුවක්කු මහතා සම්බන්ධ සිද්ධිය සන්ඩේ ටයිම්ස් පුවත්පත වාර්තා කර තිබූ ආකාරය…
Death threats alleged for filing rights case against ASP
A businessman from Seeduwa this week filed a motion in the Supreme Court claiming he has received death threats over the telephone for filing a fundamental rights petition against a Police officer who had allegedly assaulted him.
The petitioner, Harsha de Silva of Negombo, has cited IGP Chandra Fernando, Colombo Crimes Division ASP Ranmal Kodituwakku, SSP Peliyagoda Jagath Abeysiri Gunawardena, SP Peliyagoda Gamini Wijetunga, OIC Wattala Dharmasiri Fernando and the Attorney General as respondents.
According to the petitioner who is chairman and managing director of Vehicles Lanka (Pvt) Ltd., he was driving from Colombo to Negombo on Jan 13, 2005 at around 9 p.m. when he heard the tooting of a horn from a vehicle behind his vehicle, trying to overtake his vehicle. He could not make way for the vehicle behind to overtake his vehicle as the traffic flow was heavy. After some distance the vehicle managed to overtake his vehicle. It then stopped in front of his vehicle blocking his and other vehicles that were proceeding towards Negombo.
He said that Mr. Kodithuwakku who was in Police uniform and the driver who was in civvies approached his vehicle and started abusing him. When he lowered the shutters of his vehicle to talk to Mr. Kodituwakka, the latter had pulled him by the tie and assaulted him.
He claims that Mr. Kodithuwakku ordered him to get into his car where he was assaulted further. He also said that when his cellular phone began to ring Mr. Kodituwakku grabbed the phone from him, dashed it on the ground and trampelled it.
He said that during this incident he heard a vehicle approaching the scene and Mr. Kodithuwakku stopped assaulting him to look at the approaching vehicle. At this stage he (Mr. de Silva) recognised the person in the vehicle as Minister Jeyaraj Fernandopulle. He then cried out to the minister to save him as he was being assaulted for no reason at all. He states he was taken to the Wattala police station and assaulted further. Shortly afterwards, Minister Fernandopulle arrived at the police station and the OIC there informed the minister that Mr. de Silva was given the breathalyser test which proved he had not taken liquor.
