(Lanka-e-News - 03.Oct.2015, 9.05PM) Folowing the rape and murder of a 4 ½ years old girl at Kotadeniyawa , a student attending school and a father of a child were arrrested by Kotadeniyawa polce unlawfully .Thereafter the CID took into custody the true culprit who made a confession. The DNA of his and that of murdered child were similar. Subsequently the father of a child who was wrongfully arrested and asaulted brutally by the police for four full days , and the student whose photograph was taken keeping him in naked state and assaulted were released . It is to be noted even yesterday(02) , both these innocent victims are receiving medical treatment at the Gampaha hospital because of the bruthless assault launched on them by the lawless police.
These victims after their release told the media that they were treated by the police as though they were terrorists. Lanka e news that champions the cause of the oppressed and the victims of injustice , from the very outset highlighted that the arrest of the student by the police without evidence was wrongful , yet the IGP (Impotent General of police ) of SL paid no heed .
What the student revealed to the media after his release ….
''On the 16 th (September) morning at about 10.00 my mother woke me up and told that the police have arrived. When I came out the police took my laptop , some other things , and along with a shool friend of mine took us in a three wheeler saying , after recording a statement we will be released immediately.There were four officers in colored attire.
They took me to a rear room of the Kotadeniya police leaving my friend at another place.After taking me into the room they made me kneel down , and assaulted. They continued to attack me saying ‘you did it.’ They asaulted me with the fist , feet and an S Lon pipe.They did not allow my mother too to see me. The OIC came to the venue , and told the assailants to kill me, while alleging that it should be me who had done that.
The police held me in custody for four days , 16,17 ,18 and 19 and continued to assault me every now and then.The police officers stripped me nude , and started looking at me and laughing when I was in the naked state.They also took photographs when I was naked.An ASP too came and looked at me in my nude state , and scolded me in absolute filth.
Throughout the period I was in custody they assaulted me.My mother was not allowed to see me for three days.They threatened to kill us.Some who claimed they are from the CID too came and assaulted me. On the 19 th I was produced in court. ''
Kelum the father of a child the other victim who was released ……
''In the early hours of the morning of 16 th September , the police OIC arrived , took me into the police vehicle and blindfolded me.They removed the blindfold after taking me to a house in a jungle at Wedibehethwatte area.
It is the OIC who then instructed to remove the blindfold. Thereafter I was assaulted while saying ‘it is you who did this.’I was hung , and assaulted. When I was being hung I felt something happened to my spine.I was assaulted with the fists , feet and S Lon pipe.. After keeping me for a day and assaulting me, I was brought to the police. I was produced in court only on the 19 th.''
Seemingly there is no one to agitate to arrest those who brutally and mercilessly assaulted two innocents , a school going student and a father . Neither is any attempt being made to arrest those police officers guilty of exteme brutality and sadistic propensities.
The good governance rulers and promoters who went with all the fanfare abroad to speak about and for human rights have also returned carrying ‘cutouts’ for display .Media however reports that on the instructions of the IGP an investigation has begun.
Meanwhile, the entire population of this country is intently watching and earnestly waiting until the president who is in charge of the security of the people gives unwavering orders to arrest the police OIC , the ASP and other outrageously law breaking officers who were responsible for the wrongful arrest of two law abiding innocent citizens- a student and a father of one child .
Even when the media were publishing reports on this incident of intense gravity , and about this innocent child which are full of portents affecting the security of the entire nation , and is not something which concerns just a student and a father alone,the police top brass ignored it . Hence from the IGP to the SSP of Negombo police must be held answerable for remaining blind and deaf to all the exposures for so long.
This police brutality and neglect of duty cannot be taken lightly for this lawless conduct of the police taking two law abdiding citizens of the country into custody at their will and pleasure is not a matter that concerns only those two innocent victims , but all law abiding citizens of the country . If the police act this illegally and with impunity , are the law abiding cirtizens to take the law into their hands , the only option they have in such circumstances of police criminalities and brutalities with impunity ? Are these culprits not being taken into custody because they are police officers ?
The IGP the head of the police enforcment must give an answer not only via word but by deed by taking stern and deterrent action against these subordinates under him . Let us remind him lest he has forgotten he is the Inspector General of police , and not Impotent General of police. Though the abbreviation IGP is the same for both , he cannot be both when performing his duties and responsibilities for which he is paid a salary out of public funds.
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