• Police summoned his daughters and investigated the plaint to find that all of them were living well to do lives

By Buddhika Kumarasiri   

An 82 year old father of seven children yesterday made a complaint to the Padukka police that he had seven daughters and they were demanding Rs.200,000 to take care of him. He requested the police to help him.   

He told police that the only land he had in his possession was sold to fund medical expenses for a kidney transplant and the balance Rs.400,000 had been given to his youngest daughter who looked after him until she abandoned him and his wife in a rented house and left with her husband.   

Police summoned his daughters and investigated the plaint to find that all of them were living well to do lives. OIC Kapila Senanayaka who explained to them on their duty to take care of their elderly father and if they refused to do so steps would be taken to resolve the issue through courts.

Subsequently, one of the daughters resident in Piliyandala area had undertaken to look after her father.