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Police statements contradictory, deaths of Janaka-Sisith suspicious
Nov 18, 2016
The
submissions made by the CID in connection with the deaths of two
IUSF-activist university students at Imbulgoda in Gampaya are
contradictory, and their deaths are suspicious, lawyer Rajika Silva, who
appears on behalf of the rights of the deceased, told the Gampaha
courts yesterday (17).
Suspicious statements
The lawyer noted that police have given statements that upon receiving a report of a road accident at Imbulgoda junction in Gampaha around 4.30 am on 27 September 2012, they had gone there and seen the two students moving their limbs. They had been taken in a hearse to hospital around 7.30 am. Funeral parlour employees have given statements that the two students were dead by that time. The lawyer pointed out to the court that it was highly suspicious that the two students, who had been alive by 4.30 am, had not been taken to hospital until 7.30 am, and also their being taken to hospital in a hearse.
Wrong mobile phone reports
A certain telephone service provider has given incorrect reports with regard to the calls list of one of the deceased, and the magistrate who had previously heard the case had ordered the CID to take legal action in that connection, the lawyer said, adding however that instead of taking the company in question to courts, the CID has given statements to the effect that it had been a mistake. There cannot be mistakes in telephone calls reports which are crucial in a court case, she noted.
Kelaniya University students’ union president Janaka Bandara Ekanayake and Ruhuna University’s first year student Sisitha Priyankara Silva died under mysterious circumstances as they had been on their way by motorcycle to Nugegoda to collect leaflets required for a IUSF-organized protest march from Kandy to Colombo, in support of a struggle by university lecturers demanding a six per cent budgetary allocation for education. Police claimed they died in a vehicle accident, but owing to the aspects of the location of the so-called accident, injuries to the two students and the suspicious conduct of the police, there have been many accusations that the then Rajapaksa regime had murdered them.
Further hearings will take place on December 08.
The lawyer noted that police have given statements that upon receiving a report of a road accident at Imbulgoda junction in Gampaha around 4.30 am on 27 September 2012, they had gone there and seen the two students moving their limbs. They had been taken in a hearse to hospital around 7.30 am. Funeral parlour employees have given statements that the two students were dead by that time. The lawyer pointed out to the court that it was highly suspicious that the two students, who had been alive by 4.30 am, had not been taken to hospital until 7.30 am, and also their being taken to hospital in a hearse.
Wrong mobile phone reports
A certain telephone service provider has given incorrect reports with regard to the calls list of one of the deceased, and the magistrate who had previously heard the case had ordered the CID to take legal action in that connection, the lawyer said, adding however that instead of taking the company in question to courts, the CID has given statements to the effect that it had been a mistake. There cannot be mistakes in telephone calls reports which are crucial in a court case, she noted.
Kelaniya University students’ union president Janaka Bandara Ekanayake and Ruhuna University’s first year student Sisitha Priyankara Silva died under mysterious circumstances as they had been on their way by motorcycle to Nugegoda to collect leaflets required for a IUSF-organized protest march from Kandy to Colombo, in support of a struggle by university lecturers demanding a six per cent budgetary allocation for education. Police claimed they died in a vehicle accident, but owing to the aspects of the location of the so-called accident, injuries to the two students and the suspicious conduct of the police, there have been many accusations that the then Rajapaksa regime had murdered them.
Further hearings will take place on December 08.
