Bail application of fmr. Navy Spokesman rejected

Case re-fixed for hearing on August 24

Colombo Fort Magistrate yesterday rejected the bail application for former Navy Spokesman Commodore D. K. P. Dassanayake and ordered that he along with five other suspects be re-remanded until August 24.

When the case was taken up before Colombo Fort Magistrate Lanka Jayaratne, former Navy Spokesman Commodore D. K. P. Dassanayake was not produced before Courts due his unstable health condition.

The counsel appearing for the aggrieved parties requested the Magistrate to make an order for a Judicial Medical Officer (JMO) to check on the health condition of the seventh suspect in the case, former Navy Spokesman Dassanayake.

Agreeing to the request the Colombo Fort Magistrate ordered a JMO to check on the health condition of the former Navy Spokesman, who is receiving medical treatment at Welisara Naval Hospital and present a report to Court on the next hearing date.

Additionally, the Magistrate ordered the Crime Investigation Division (CID) to produce a summary of the statements recorded from the second and seventh suspects in the year 2013 on the next hearing date.

Seven suspects including the former Navy Spokesman had

Agreeing to the request the Colombo Fort Magistrate ordered a JMO to check on the health condition of the former Navy Spokesman, who is receiving medical treatment at Welisara Naval Hospital and present a report to Court on the next hearing date

been arrested by the CID on charges of being involved in the abduction and disappearance of 11 youths between 2008 and 2009.

The CID informed court that these 11 persons, who were alleged to have been abducted by an unknown group in Colombo and surrounding areas, had been taken to an underground detention cell at a navy camp in Trincomalee, an act which was allegedly supervised by a Navy Lieutenant Commander.