President’s Assist. Secretary and top police officers are culprits in Slave Island 10 million heist !-vehicle used belongs to President’s fleet

(Lanka-e-News -08.March.2013, 11.30PM) Can you beat that ! it has now come to light that the culprits in the broad daylight robbery of Rs. 10 million committed about a month ago by a group that came in a defender vehicle under the guise of police personnel at Hunupitiya, on two individuals who were traveling in a vehicle after collecting cash from Sampath Bank Slave Island Van , are none other than the assistant Secretary of the President of SL , the mastermind behind this heist and a group of high ranking officers of the police. It is learnt that tremendous efforts are being made to suppress the information that the assistant secretary of the Presidential secretariat is involved. Among those who were arrested are the OIC of the Fort traffic police division R D B Adhikari I P. Another is the chief security officer , Mahesh De Silva of the Minister Priyankara Jayaratne’s Ministerial Security Division, and a Police Constable of the CID The complainant had received death threats today in the night at 8.40 that if the defender vehicle of the President’s pool of vehicles that was used by the Assist. Secretary to the President for this highway robbery is identified, he will be murdered. Thereafter , the CID Colombo division had recorded a statement that the defender vehicle could not be identified. Yet in the first complaint the complainant had stated he could identify the defender vehicle. By now orders from the top had gone to see to it that the defender identification of the defender vehicle as belonging to the President’s fleet be concealed. On the 12th of February when this robbery was committed Hollywood film style by these criminals , underlining the lawlessness and the upsurge in crime wave in SL , Lanka e news reported the incident as follows : ‘Two individuals who came in a car No. 85-5615 collected a sum of Rs. Ten million at about 12.30 p.m. from the Sampath Bank situated in front of Nawaloka hospital within the Slave Island police division . When they were traveling in the car at Navam Mawatha after collecting the cash, an individual in a dress like that of a police man had stopped it. At the same time several individuals who came in a defender vehicle had alighted from it , and pulled out the two persons from the car and taken them into their defender vehicle while also seizing the car , and taken them to Kotte . There after relieving the abducted individuals of the cash and abandoning them , they have fled taking the car also along with them.’ Attack on Indian fishermen: Lanka refuses to learn Posted by: Prahlad Published: Friday, March 8, 2013 Read more at: http://news.oneindia.in/2013/03/08/attack-on-indian-fishermen-lanka-refuses-to-learn-1166837.html New Delhi, March 8: The attack on four fishermen from Karaikal by Sri Lankan Coast Guard personnel while fishing off Kodiakarai coast comes at a time when India is caught in a bind on the voting on the upcoming UN rights panel resolution on Sri Lanka. Five Karaikal-based fishermen had ventured into the sea on March 2 in a fibre glass boat and were fishing off Kodiakarai last night when Lankan Coast Guard personnel surrounded them and boarded their vessel. They allegedly threw chilli powder and ice cubes besides attacking them with wooden logs and fled, he said. One fisherman managed to escape unhurt as he hid near the boat's engines. The injured fishermen returned to shore today and have been admitted to the Karaikal General Hospital, he said. The attack comes a day after a 40-year-old fishermen was wounded in the shoulder after Lankan navy personnel allegedly fired at their fishing boats. Taking a serious view of the attack and firing on fishermen, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa yesterday in a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had said that these incidents should be viewed as an "indirect attempt to intimidate India and browbeat it into not raising its voice" against Sri Lanka on the Tamil issue at the international fora, which is highly unacceptable. Meanwhile, describing the plight of Tamils in Sri Lanka as a "huge humanitarian problem" which has to end, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said Thursday that India will ask the island nation's government for an independent inquiry into allegations of human rights violations there. The government is in a fix on which way vote on the US-sponsored resolution against Sri Lanka. It has become more complex after the US circulated draft recommends an "independent international investigation." The Indian government sources have been indicating that they were going to vote along with the US so far, the "independent international investigation" may make it difficult for India to vote on it, as it goes against the Indian principles of non-interference. Khurshid had said yesterday that "a closure must be brought to the 27 years of violence and India does not want to play policeman or big brother". "I know there are reports of human rights violations. The bottom line remains that devolution (of power) which gives legitimate rights must be implemented in toto," he asserted in the Lok Sabha while replying to a debate on the plight of Tamils in Sri Lanka. "This is a huge humanitarian problem. This involves both the heart and the head. Our generation has to find a solution to this problem. This has gone on for too long," Khurshid had said adding: "This has to end. It is clear that we want all citizens, particularly Tamils, to live as participants in a democracy." Read more at: http://news.oneindia.in/2013/03/08/attack-on-indian-fishermen-lanka-refuses-to-learn-1166837.html