Person obstructing prison officials identified: CCD

21 August 2011 01:35 pm Views - 4925

The person who was allegedly involved in preventing prisons officials from carrying out their duties when former army commander Sarath Fonseka was taken for treatment to a private hospital on July 21 has been identified but his whereabouts have not been identified  the Colombo Crime Division (CCD) informed a Colombo Court. 
 
Filing a further investigations report before Colombo Fort Magistrate Ms. Lanka Jayaratne, the CCD stated that the investigations conducted so far had identified the suspect who was involved in the incident and that he was not at his residence. The CCD further submitted in Court that a statement regarding his whereabouts had been recorded from his wife.  

Accordingly, the Magistrate ordered the police to submit an investigation report regarding the incident on the date of the next hearing. The Magisterial inquiry was fixed for October 21.  
 
Earlier, the Prisons Department in a complaint to the Colombo Crimes Division accused a person on crutches; a regular visitor to the hearings of the former Army commander that he had attacked a jailor and prevented officials from carrying out their duties  when the former army commander had visited the Nawaloka hospital to undergo treatment. (By Lakmal Sooriyagoda)