Embilipitiya killing ASP arrested

BY Cassendra Doole and Premalal Wijeratne-2016-02-03

Former Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) D.W.C. Dharmaratne of the Embilipitiya Police Station was arrested yesterday by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) in connection with the death of a man in Embilipitiya. Police sources said the CID had recorded a statement from the ASP last morning and placed him under arrest. The ASP and the HQI were ordered to be arrested and produced before Court while the other suspects were ordered to be produced at an identification parade.

However, no arrests were made until yesterday – a lapse of three weeks since the incident and over a week after the arrest order was issued. The Police spokesman had said that Police officers cannot be arrested without instructions from the Attorney General.
It has been over three weeks since Sumith Prasanna was allegedly pushed over an upper floor balcony railing to his death, in the course of a raid on that house, by the Embilipitiya Police.