MY HUSBAND FIRED UNINTENTIONALLY: WIFE OF MAIN SUSPECT

My husband, Selavarasa Jayanthan (39) from Jaffna,was never a member of the LTTE. It is a rumour to say that he is a former combatant. My husband fired unintentionally, the wife of the main suspect said. I grabbed the pistol at once from the Police Officer and that went off accidentally

Two people were arrested in connection with the shooting incident targeting Jaffna High Court Judge, M. Elancheliyan at the Nallur South Road on July 22, 2017.

The chief suspect surrendered on Tuesday morning and made his statement to the Police. “I grabbed the pistol as a challenge.”

“After consuming liquor with some people in my house at Nallur, on Saturday, we came to the Temple Road Junction on the Point Pedro Road.at that moment my cousin pointed at a Police Officer coming on a motorcycle and challenged me to shoot him, grabbing his pistol if I had the guts to do so. Hearing this I grabbed the pistol at once from the Police Officer and that went off accidentally.” “Hijacking a scooter.” Following that , brandishing the pistol, I once again stopped a scooter that was coming in that direction and taking it by force, I went through the Adiyapatham Road to the Kalviyankadu area and from there I went to Ariyalai. After abandoning the scooter behind the Peychchi Amman temple, I went to my maternal aunt’s house in Thirunagar area. I told my aunt that I had hit a Police Officer in my drunken state and that the Police were searching for me.i changed my clothes there and went to the Kombayanmanal cemetery, where I spent the night. “I surrendered to Police.

I spent the following day at a relative’s house in Navanthurai. That night , I went to my uncle’s place at Koddady. My uncle who had come to know of the incident at Nallur, advised me to surrender to the Police. So I went with my uncle, surrendered to the Police and made my statement to the Police. Clothes of the suspect recovered.

The Police, after obtaining the statement from the suspect, took the suspect to his maternal aunt’s house at Thirunagar in the Police vehicle with his face covered with a black cloth.

There the Police recovered the clothes worn by the suspect during the shooting. Suspect remanded

The suspect was produced before the Jaffna Magistrate at his official residence on Tuesday. He was ordered to be remanded till August 8.