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SSP VAS GUNAWARDENA TRANSFERRED TO POLICE HQ

By Kurulu Kariyakarawana

Colombo Crime Division head, SSP Vas Gunawardena, who is at the centre of a controversy over his alleged involvement in the alleged abduction and assault on an IT student, has been transferred to Police Headquarters with immediate effect.

Police spokesman SSP Ranjith Gunasekara told Daily Mirror that SSP Gunawardena had been transferred yesterday on the direction of IGP Jayantha Wickramaratne.

However, he did not mention the particular unit or division at Police Headquarters to which he would be attached.

DIG Anura Senanayake is to oversee the CCD, assisted by ASP (CCD) Nuwan Wedasinghe.

SSP Gunasekara said that the assault case of IT student Nipuna Ramanayake would be taken up at the Kaduwela Magistrate’a Courts next Monday.

On August 12, the Kaduwela Magistrate had ordered the Athurugiriya Police, to arrest Ravindu Gunawardena, the son of SSP Vas Gunawardena, immediately and to prevent him from leaving the country.

The magistrate had given the order after considering a report filed by the Athurugiriya Police, and stressed that the Department of Immigration and Emigration should be informed of the order.

Athurugiriya Police submitted that investigations had commenced on a complaint made by another student, H. M. Seneviratne, by name. According to the entry, Nipuna Ramanayake and the complainant had been walking along a byroad when a jeep had stopped nearby and some armed men had got off and threatened them and dragged Nipuna away by force.

During the investigations it had come to light that the jeep belonged to the Colombo Crime Division and that Nipuna was in police custody.

Earlier, the police spokesman had told the media that a special police team was probing the abduction and assault of Ramanayake and had recorded statements from a number of persons, including SSP Gunawardena.

Ravindu Gunawardena is alleged to have led a group of policemen who had allegedly abducted and assaulted Nipuna Ramanayake (a student at the Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology) last week.

Following the incident, Nipuna had given the police a detailed account of the outrageous incident and described how he was abducted, assaulted and detained for over three hours.

According to him, he had been abducted at gunpoint by three armed persons in plain clothes, a few metres away from the SLIIT campus, and pushed into a jeep. The armed group had taken him towards Pittugala. He had then been blindfolded and pistol whipped by the goons.

After that, he had then been taken to an unknown destination and pushed into a room where he was beaten with wooden poles and hockey sticks by several persons.

Nipuna had again been blindfolded and taken by jeep -- allegedly to the CCD office in Dematagoda. SSP Vas Gunawardena is also alleged to have joined them on the way.

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