Judge’s son fakes abduction
by Ananda Weerasooriya-Saturday, 12 Oct 2013
Mount Lavinia Superintendant of Police, Ravindra Karawita, said the complaint lodged with the police about the alleged abduction of the son of Colombo Additional District Judge,L.A. Somasinghe, was fabricated by the son himself.
According to the Additional District Judge’s son, he had been purportedly abducted on 28 September near the Rawatawatte Junction by a group of unidentified persons and then released in the Wadduwa, Molligoda area.
The Moratuwa Police and the Colombo Crimes Division (CCD) launched investigations into the complaint and sent the CCTV camera footage obtained from stores in the surrounding areas to the Moratuwa University for further
investigations.
The Moratuwa Police and the Colombo Crimes Division (CCD) launched investigations into the complaint and sent the CCTV camera footage obtained from stores in the surrounding areas to the Moratuwa University for further
investigations.
The police also obtained the alleged abductee’s phone records and followed up on his contacts. When contacted, a friend of the alleged victim, had revealed the truth to the police. The alleged victim had spent his day at a friend’s house in Molligoda, after being in the Bambalapitiya area for some time. He later claimed that he had been abducted.
Investigations have revealed that the Additional District Judge and his son had had a quarrel the previous day, which led to the son claiming he was abducted.
Nine arrested over Wadduwa abduction
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SATURDAY, 12 OCTOBER 2013 
Nine people have been arrested in connection with the abduction of Wadduwa Serene Pavilion CEO Anura Lokuhetti yesterday, police said.He was abducted and left by the roadside in Bandaragama yesterday morning. He alleged that he was assaulted by the gangsters who abducted him.
Saturday, 12 Oct 2013Police Acting Media Spokesman, SSP Ajith Rohana, refuted media reports that the Inspector General of Police (IGP), N.K. Illangakoon, sent the Army to Weliweriya, and said the Army had been deployed at the request of the Gampaha SP, Vijitha Komasaru, and to announce a message from the Defence Ministry. SSP Rohana said, "The IGP sent a team of Army officers initially on 29 July to provide protection to the factory in Rathupaswala as there was a rumour that the people in the area are to set fire to the factory. But the Army was called to Weliweriya on 1 August at the request of SP Komasaru."
