President intervenes in ‘sexual abuse’ charge against Padmasiri Kodikara!

 Thursday, 07 August 2014 

President Mahinda Rajapaksa has got DIG Anura Senanayake to cover up the attempted sexual abuse charge filed with police by film and tele drama actress Lakshika Fonseka against film director and the president’s long-term friend Padmasiri Kodikara, Temple Trees sources say.

The intermediary in this was presidential advisor on tele dramas and tele drama director Ranjan de Silva, who became a director by directing the tele drama ‘Rathu Rosa’ while being a driver at Rupavahini Corporation. In that tele drama, the role of ‘Amathi Malli’ was played by incumbent president Mahinda Rajapaksa.

The president has appointed Ranjan de Silva as one of his hundreds of advisers as a mark of gratitude for making him a tele drama actor during the period no one took him seriously.

Lakshika, who is younger than Kodikara’s own son, has complained to police after fleeing a hotel to which Padmasiri Kodikara had taken her and tried to sexually abuse her there.

With the intervention of Ranjan de Silva, the president has spoken to DIG senanayake and said, “Anura, settle that matter. The girl has not been abused. If police go to investigate such complaints, it will have no time for other work.”

On the order of the president, Ranjan de Silva and Padmasiri Kodikara had gone to meet the DIG, gave him a treat of a different kind and got the complaint covered up. After escaping from Padmasiri Kodikara, Lakshika has now abandoned her upstairs house at Nugegoda and gone into hiding at her Gampaha home to escape from Anura Senanayake, according to the talk in the cinema circle.