Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka)

The disappeara­nce of 11 youths: ‘Navy Sampath’ further remanded

- BY YOSHITHA PERERA

The victim had also notified a number of a car was 8987 and later it was revealed that according to the investigat­ions this particular car belonged to former Navy Spokesman Commodore, D.K.P. Dassanayak­e

Former Lieutenant Commander, Chandana Prasad Hettiarchc­i alias

‘Navy Sampath’, who was arrested over the charges of abduction and disappeara­nce of 11 youths from Colombo in 2008 and 2009, has been ordered to be further remanded until December 05 by the Colombo Fort Magistrate Court.

When the case was taken up in Courts, filing a further report CIDS Organised Crimes Investigat­ion Unit (OCIU) OIC Inspector Nishantha Silva informed Court that it had identified some other individual­s who had been involved in the abduction and threatenin­g to families of missing persons to give ransoms. He informed Court the CID would take necessary measures to arrest these individual­s in the near future.

IP Nishantha Silva also informed, Colombo Fort Magistrate Ranga Dissanayak­e that the CID is currently inquiring about the phone records of persons who were involved in the abduction of 11 youths and asking for ransoms.

Earlier the CID informed Court, Rajiv Naganadan, a victim from 11 missing youths, had contacted his mother after they disappeare­d and he had informed that they were with the intelligen­ce personnel under former Navy Spokesman Commodore

D.K.P. Dassanayak­e.

The victim had also notified a number of a car was 8987 and later it was revealed that according to the investigat­ions this particular car belonged to former Navy Spokesman Commodore, D.K.P. Dassanayak­e.

The CID is continuing its investigat­ions into the abduction and disappeara­nce of 11 youths by an unknown group at Dehiwala, Battaramul­la and Wattala in 2008 and 2009. Nine other former navy personnel including former Navy Spokesman D.K.P. Dassanayak­e were arrested in this connection and later released on bail.

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