COUNSEL CLAIMS NAGULAN WORKED FOR ARMY INTELLIGENCE

Bail refused for suspects in the LTTE emblem caps case; Court awaits AG’S opinion

Colombo Additional Magistrate Aruni Attigalle yesterday refused to grant bail to three suspects, who were accused of attempting to send caps with LTTE logo to London via a courier service in April 2016.

Considering both submissions of defence and prosecution, the Magistrate directed the Court Registrar to send the defence bail application to the Attorney General to consider granting bail for the suspects.

Suspects, Jesuratnam Jegasamson, Mahadevan Prasanna and Subramaniam Nagularasa alias Nagulan were now in remand custody for almost nine months over the incident, since the Attorney General’s opinion is pending

They were further remanded till March 15 by

According to the defence counsel Nagulan provided secret information to the Army during the war and later served as an officer attached to the Technical Engineering Unit of the Army Base in Nandikadal

the Magistrate. According to the defence counsel Ajith Prasanna and Suranga Danthanarayan, third suspect Nagulan was an individual, who provided secret information to the Army during the war period and later served as an officer attached to the Technical Engineering Unit of the Army base in Nandikadal.

The prosecution said the caps with LTTE emblem were detected at a courier service in Narahenpita, following information received by the Narahenpita Police

During the investigation the Police apprehended the first two suspects and later revealed that the third suspect Nagulan had given the alleged LTTE caps to them in order to send them to London.

According to defence counsel Ajith Prasanna and Suranga Danthanarayan, third suspect Nagulan was an individual, who provided secret information to the Army during the war period and later served as an officer attached to the Technical Engineering Unit of the Army base in Nandikadal.

During the interrogation of the third suspect it was revealed that he had attempted to send the caps to one of his friends one Kedishwaran in London.