Vavuniya Police on the trail of group of abductors
By Premalal Wijeratne- December 18, 2013
The Special Investigation Unit of the Vavuniya Police is making inquiries to arrest a group of racketeers, who had abducted a person (56) and detained him in Delft Island asking for a ransom of 70,000 Francs from the abductee’s son, who is in France.
Investigations have revealed that the victim was abducted in the Kurukkal Pudukulam area.
A high-ranking police officer in charge of this area said the wife of the person who was abducted has lodged a complaint on the abduction of her husband.
The gang had got to know that the victim’s son had received a large sum of money as compensation because of an accident he had met with in France.
It is also revealed the victim had fled to Kayts Island, with the help of a young fisherman and reached the Vavuniya Police.
The gang had kidnapped him on 14 December, after tricking him into believing that he would be getting a water pump that had purportedly been donated by a Non-Governmental Organization.
The police have taken the driver of the van in which the victim was abducted, along with the van, into custody. They have deployed a team of police personnel to arrest the other suspects.
The police said the victim had lived in India for some time and had come to Sri Lanka recently.
A special police team is making further inquiries in this connection on the instruction of DIG, Vavuniya, Jayantha Wickremasinghe.(Ceylon Today Online)
By Premalal Wijeratne- December 18, 2013The Special Investigation Unit of the Vavuniya Police is making inquiries to arrest a group of racketeers, who had abducted a person (56) and detained him in Delft Island asking for a ransom of 70,000 Francs from the abductee’s son, who is in France.
Investigations have revealed that the victim was abducted in the Kurukkal Pudukulam area.
A high-ranking police officer in charge of this area said the wife of the person who was abducted has lodged a complaint on the abduction of her husband.
The gang had got to know that the victim’s son had received a large sum of money as compensation because of an accident he had met with in France.
It is also revealed the victim had fled to Kayts Island, with the help of a young fisherman and reached the Vavuniya Police.
The gang had kidnapped him on 14 December, after tricking him into believing that he would be getting a water pump that had purportedly been donated by a Non-Governmental Organization.
The police have taken the driver of the van in which the victim was abducted, along with the van, into custody. They have deployed a team of police personnel to arrest the other suspects.
The police said the victim had lived in India for some time and had come to Sri Lanka recently.
A special police team is making further inquiries in this connection on the instruction of DIG, Vavuniya, Jayantha Wickremasinghe.(Ceylon Today Online)
