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Ekneliyagoda murder : Army provides to CID part of Information suppressed by army hitherto - Pressures mounted on judge and family, and death threats to Sandya too

(Lanka-e-News -25.March.2016, 11.00PM) Most important information that were hitherto concealed by the army in connection with the abduction and brutal murder of Lanka e news journalist  Prageeth Ekneliyagoda committed by a group of officers of the Girithale army camp at the behest of Rajapakse regime   were handed over yesterday to the CID that is conducting investigations, based on reports reaching Lanka e news inside information division.

Ekneliyagoda was interrogated for two days at the Girithale camp in regard to the booklet written by him pertaining to the Rajapakse family, and thereafter he had been taken to Akkaraipattu in the East of Sri Lanka.The officers who accompanied Prageeth returned to the camp two days later without Prageeth. The CID  asked form the army  details of the vehicle that transported them . Unbelievably , this information was not provided by the army until yesterday. Consequently , the Homagama magistrate had need to make this order  twice to the army to provide the information.

In any event based on information reaching Lanka e news, information concerning  13 matters were requested from the army by the CID. Yet the army had only provided information regarding only 9 of them . Of them 5 are false and are reports prepared later , it is learnt.

Meanwhile , based on unofficial reports , immense pressure has been brought to bear on the Homagama judge to release the suspects in custody on bail. His family too had been pressurized, reports say.

According to unofficial reports , the judge was raising the question , how can the case  be conducted without the body of Ekneliyagoda being found , and that there is no direct evidence ? when the case was taken up on the last two occasions , because of the pressures exerted on  his family. However an army chief told Lanka e news there were no such pressures exerted on  the family of the judge.

In any event , the army that was reluctant to provide part of valuable ,crucial and vital information for so long , however provided the information  yesterday after the president’s intervention, it is learnt.

Sandya , the wife of Ekneliyagoda , convening a media briefing yesterday , revealed that if bail is granted to the suspects in this case , her life and those around her will be in grave peril.

The case is to be heard again on the 29 th.

The video footage of Sandya’s statement is hereunder 

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