Who is the person being tortured at the CCD?

Thursday, 04 October 2012

Information has been received of a person being severely tortured at the Colombo Crimes Division (CCD) office in Peliyagoda.

Sources say the person had been brought in from the Modera are and is being referred to as “Janith.” He is being tortured and interrogated from the time he was brought into the CCD head office on the 2nd.

The new director of the CID, SSP Gamini Maturata had visited the CCD office to meet this person around 3 a.m. on the 3rd and the head of the CCD, Senior DIG Anura Senanayake had also come to see the person and at around 5.30 a.m.

According to our sources, this person could be linked to the underworld and Senanayake had given special directives to the officers to question the person in order to prevent him from revealing details that could be detrimental to certain politicians.