Pujitha in mission to save molesters!
Aug 06, 2016
A topmost official in the police is involved in a secret mission to prevent the arrest of the owner of a human leadership academy at Hantana in Kandy where a group of female students had been sexually abused.
Identified as Nimal Peiris, he has been given anticipatory bail. He is said to be a close friend of IGP Pujith Jayasundara. It was Peiris who had organized a reception including posters and banners for the police chief in Kandy upon his appointment.
Peiris is on warrant over two court cases, while two other cases are pending, say police sources.
17 girls abused
The main lecturer of the academy, Chandimal Gamage, has been arrested, and remanded until August 11 by Kandy magistrate Buddhika Sri Ragala.
There are complaints that he had sexually abused 17 girls under his care.
Aged between 15 and 17 years, the girls from various parts of the country had been staying at the academy. Parents had paid Rs. 140,000 for each girl as fees for the course. They had been recruited following a newspaper advertisement that they would be prepared again for the GCE O/L examination.
Girls had been sold
On the night of last Poson Poya day and another day, they had been taken by vehicle to another location, parents say. There, they had been sold to certain VIPs and wealthy businessmen of Kandy, parents say.
As this was going on secretly, when parents had come to meet the girls, female wardens of the academy have disrupted their meetings. The chief warden is accused of giving facilities for the liquor parties taking place regularly at the academy.
Gamage has borne full expenses for a leadership training Gamage has held at the Kandy governor’s office two weeks ago. Two girls, who had taken part in that training too, had been taken out of their hostel and sexually abused.
The victimized girls and their parents doubt if justice will be done as all top police officers and wealthy businessmen in Kandy are close friends of Peiris, and he owes money from ruling and opposition politicians of Kandy for their election campaign work.
