The National Police Commission has decided to re-investigate a student who was scheduled to sit for the GCE Advanced Level examination and was illegally arrested by the Gokarella Police for filing a false case using drugs.
Kanchana Pradeep Deep Dharmathilake (19), a resident of Dodamgaslanda, Thelambugalla was arrested by Gokarella Police Chief Inspectors Ratnayake, Wickramasinghe and Gunaratne on 2010-10-10. That was while he was on his way from his home to a friend’s house.
About 500 meters from the house, a group of plainclothes police officers had stopped him and assaulted him. Although the relatives did not accept it and requested the relevant authorities to show them the seized cannabis, the police had not produced anything.
However, the police officers later showed a quantity of heroin saying that it was in the possession of Kanchana. The next day, the student was produced in court on charges of possession of 2280 milligrams of heroin, not marijuana.
He has also been charged with transporting drugs on a motorbike and criminally assaulting a police officer. The student has been lodged in the Kegalle Remand Prison for more than 4 months without being able to obtain bail due to these false allegations.
Meanwhile, the mother of the student, Yamuna Kumari, has lodged a complaint with the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka and the National Police Commission.
According to a complaint lodged with the North Western Provincial Director’s Office of the National Police Commission, an investigation has been launched into the Gokarella Police. An investigation has been conducted by 111 ASP 111 on 2020-012-09 and a preliminary report has been called at 12-31. However, as the report was not released, the first reminder was sent on 2021-01-07 and the second reminder was sent on 2021-02-09.
Meanwhile, Kurunegala District 111 has submitted a report to the North Western Police Commission regarding 2021-01-24. He has said that since the complainant had also lodged a complaint with the IGP’s relief cell, an investigation has been conducted into the matter. All matters were brought to the attention of the investigators and it was found that the Chief Inspector of Police had arrested the suspect while he was on his way to arrest the suspect for possession of cannabis. The complainant had lodged the complaint as the raids were not carried out in a transparent manner due to his innocence, facing the A / L examination in two days and being produced before the court under section 54.
It was also observed that Kanchana and Dileepa Nuwan, who were in custody, were not known except for the three officers who had raided Kanchana’s possession after the group dispersed. have.
Accordingly, the Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) has recommended that Chief Inspector Ratnayake and other officers who carried out the raid carry out their raid duties without transparency and without regard to an important milestone in the life of the arrested Kanchana. A warning letter was issued to Chief Inspector Ratnayake as he had done so.
However, the Provincial Director of the National Police Commission (NPC) has filed a case against the Chairman of the National Police Commission, former Inspector General of Police (IGP) Chandra Bandara Referred to Mr.
The National Police Commission has decided to inquire from the Kurunegala SSP again regarding this as it has been observed that there are several weaknesses in the investigations carried out by the police. Meanwhile, the focus is on how cannabis became heroin.