Tight police security for underworld kingpin’s family wedding

Even if murders, crime and accident rates are rapidly rising, Police Chief Pujith Jayasundera, has the time to care for the social needs of those linked to the underworld.

Last week, two Police stations in the Greater Colombo area were given orders to take security precautions, of all things, for a wedding ceremony of an underworld family.

The brother of an underworld king pin was getting married last Thursday. Their rival group was planning to snuff him out when he was with the bride and other guests at a reception hall.

Personnel from the two Police Station had onerous security duties. One lot checked all the vehicles including the one in which the bride and the groom were to travel. They were looking for weapons. Another group ringed the reception hall.

There were plainclothesmen inside watching closely on those assembled. So much so, a guest who would easily have found a place in a gang was questioned on his connections to the bride and the groom. He passed the test.

When the reception ended, a Police escort helped the bride and groom going for their honeymoon in a vehicle. They melted away in the heavy traffic and the officers and men breathed a sigh of relief that their boss’ orders were carried out without anything untoward happening.

There seems an unusual moral to the story. It is not only those in high society for whose weddings Police security would be available, but also for kingpins of the underworld. More so, if they have a rival gang to fight.