Gota raves while reading charges against Mangala!

Tuesday, 15 October 2013 

An infuriated defence secretary Nandasena Gotabhaya Rajapaksa has made his office tremble when he shouted out thus: “Didn’t I say he is an UNPer. He is making a joke of the entire police department. Shouldn’t he have said weapons were found during yesterday’s search of Mangala’s room? Without doing that, he is making absurd charges and humiliating us too.”

The reason that made the defence secretary to scream like that at the top of his voice was the producing of Matara district MP, UNP communication unit chief Mangala Samaraweera to the Matara magistrate’s court by Matara police with the charge that he had ‘misplaced two loudspeakers.’ Following this screaming bout, the defence secretary has ordered the head of the state intelligence to submit an immediate report after inquiring into the connections SSP Deshabandu Tennakoon was having with UNP figures.

Commenting on this development, a senior lawyer representing the defendant told us that the charge of ‘misplacing two loudspeakers’ cannot be taken lightly. That is because, it would come as no surprise if a special proposal was adopted in the House to amend the Penal Code and the Criminal Procedure Code with the two-third majority in the supreme parliament, saying that ‘misplacing loudspeakers’ is a an offense carrying a minimum of 10 year prison term. ‘Misplacing two loudspeakers’ would be an offence serious enough to be indicted, going by the manner in which the country’s chief justice was expelled from her position, said the senior lawyer.

Police want Ranil’s secretary

WEDNESDAY, 16 OCTOBER 2013 

The Police Department was searching for UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe’s Secretary Sudath Chandrasekera and a former opposition leader of the Western Provincial Council, Kithsiri Kahatapitiya to arrest over the attack on the Matara protest on October 5, Police spokesman said today.

Police spokesman Ajith Rohana said five special units have been deployed to search for five suspects including Mr. Chandrasekera and Mr. Kahatapitiya over the attack on the protest. (Lahiru Pothmulla and Sanath Desmond)