(Lanka-e-News -18.July.2015, 9.35PM) While ganja (cannabis) was being transported this noon in the official security vehicle of Sabaragamuwa province chief minister Mahipala Herath, Polgahawala excise department offiicers had been able to take into custody the ganja and vehicle.
At the time the police van GD 8457 providing security to the chief minister was taken into custody 3 kilos of ganja was found hidden in it. The driver of the vehicle was a police officer attached to the security detail of none other than the chief minister.
The chief minister upon learning that his vehicle has been taken into custody along with his security officer and ganja , has rushed to the Kegalla police and made a false complaint that his vehicle had gone missing to save face ( however a great many of Mahinda Rajapakse politicos are faceless and shameless) . He is also leaving no stone unturned to supprees the episode, it is learnt
The minister’s vehicle and his security officer taken into custody have by now been produced before the Kegalla district court . It is to be noted that when the Excise department officers conduct a raid , it is not necessary that they must have recourse to the police anti narcotics division to produce to court whoever and whatever taken into custody, as the Excise department has powers to directly and independently do that. Because of this, in the recent past we saw how political bigwigs like Mahipalas who are accustomed to bribing the police and escaping , getting trapped when the Excise department seized their goods and lackeys . These politicos were stranded and found it difficult to disentangle themselves .
A case in point was ,when the co ordinating secretary of Ven. Athurellya Rathane Thera was caught red handed with the drug ecstasy ( considered as more dangerous than heroin) . No matter how hard Rathane Thera tried to camouflage the crime , he could not succeed .Finally Rathane Thera having no escape route denied that the culprit is his secretary.
Interestingly ,chief minister Mahipala's son Kanaka Herath is contesting Kegalle district at the forthcoming general elections unsurprisingly under the UPFA of Mahinda Rajapakse and his den of racketeers.
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Sorry it was not ganja. It was punnakku and grass for his former boss!
-- by Raizuh Langai on 2015-07-18
