Boossa Prison Superintendent threatened by underworld criminal

Colombo, July 13 (Daily Mirror) - An Assistant Prison Superintendent at the Boossa High Security Prison has lodged a complaint with the police regarding threats from underworld criminal Heenatiyana Mahesh, who is allegedly operating from Dubai. 

Prison spokesman Gamini B. Dissanayake said that two individuals on a motorcycle had entered the Superintendent's house and had taken a phone call to Heenatiyana Mahesh, who had then threatened the Superintendent's father to stop the search activities in the Boossa prison.

The spokesman said that an underworld gang member detained at the prison has also questioned the Superintendent about the recent seizure of several phones from a special section of the facility.