(Lanka-e-News- 24.Sep.2015, 5.30PM) These individuals in this photograph with covered faces trying to hide themselves from the public are suspects (hora police ) , including a DIG of the police who were apprehended for aiding and abetting in illicit treasure digging .
The ex DIG is indicted on two charges : calling back the police team that went to arrest some businessmen who had dug for illicit treasure in Kudakachchikudy , Vavuniya ,and for providing security to the suspects involved in treasure digging .The ex DIG Vavuniya U.K. Dissanayake was produced before Vavuniya additional magistrate V. Ramakamalan yesterday (23) , when he was remanded until the 30th.
The lawyer who appeared for the ex DIG told court that since the DIG is sick , to grant him bail to enable him to take medical treatment.
The additional magistrate said , he cannot yield to the request made by the lawyers for the ex DIG, and if he is truly sick he can take treatment in the prison hospital where too there are doctors. The magistrate therefore ordered that medical facilities be provided to the ex DIG within the prison.
Photos and report filed by Dinasena Rathugamage
Translated by Jeff.
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Funny, since Sri Lanka gained indepence in 1948, how high-profile crooked men in Sri Lanka have used the ruse of grave debilitating illnesses to avoid sitting in a remand cell.An excellent example is Lalith Kotalawela who turned up in court sitting half-ben in a wheelchair pushed by one if his Celinco lacheys.More laughable is how these white collar criminals and sundry recover miraculously no sonner than they are released on bail.As for Kotalawela, he turned up at a TV-studio wearing a silk handky in his coat lapel with the objective of declaring what a nice "born again Christian" he was, is and always will be. Notably, how this bankcrupt man could afford a clean expensvie suit, turn up on the power of his own two feet and say how bad he is at the hide-and-seek game to find his wife is another fantastic story.It is interesting that criminals from the United States who have received long jail sentences too claim that they ar "born again".
-- by K. Karunatilleke on 2015-10-02