(Lanka-e-News -10.Feb.2016, 7.30PM) A group of prison officers have sent an open letter to the Homagama and Kaduwela magistrates against the use of mobile phones by Yoshitha Rajapakse and Gnanassara -two suspects who are in remand custody , and against the prisons authorities who are turning a blind eye to those unlawful activities. The letter reads as follows..
Honorable Homagama and Kaduwela magistrates ,
After Mahinda Rajapakse and his group visited the Colombo remand prison and had discussions with Yoshitha and remand prisoners on 31 st January (Sunday), Yoshitha the remand prisoner was entering the iron gate to go to his hall, when his mobile phone fell down before jailor Somawansa and other officers . Yoshitha came back picked up the phone and ran in while the officers were standing idle and watching.
According to the laws , we know when such a thing happens , the hall of that remand prisoner should be searched immediately, and that prisoner along with the mobile phone should be produced before a disciplinary inquiry council , and meted out punishment. When an ordinary prisoner is apprehended in such circumstances, he is liable to a six months jail sentence. Yet Yoshitha is still using the mobile phone without let or hindrance This is a well and widely known fact within prison. It is an open secret.
The intelligence division (police) officers of the prison today ( 9th Feb) seized a mobile phone that was in the possession of remand prisoner Gnanassara the robed monk who is in a bed as a patient in Welikade prison hospital ward 3 (without any illness).
We are hereby requesting your honor to take appropriate measures against the Welikade prison authority Ekanayake , Intelligence division Commissioner Upuldeniya and the chief medical officer who are playing sordid games shamelessly within the prison , which is tantamount to insulting the courts and government of good governance because the ultimate accountability of the prisoners is shouldered by the courts.
This situation is most portentous and can pose threats to the lives of your honorable selves and State officers who are discharging your duties without fear or favor before the law . We therefore wish to inform, under these circumstances , not a single honest prison officer in any rung is able to carry out his duties as ‘gentlemen’
-A group of prison officers discharging duties honestly.
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