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Police questioned over failure to probe PM Jayaratne over previous recovery
Acting on a tip-off, the police Special Task Force (STF), on Wednesday morning, arrested two brothers and took into custody two vehicles, a trishaw and a car with 85 kilos and 500 grammes of heroin with a street value of over Rs. 700 million on the Biyagama road in Kelaniya.
Addressing a media conference at STF headquarters, Police spokesman SSP Ajith Rohana said the police commandos had arrested the suspects after following them for three months and the main informant would get a huge cash award and his identity would not be revealed.
According to the STF, the suspects had come in a trishaw up to a stationary car around 10.30 a.m. at a particular location on the Kelaniya-Biyagama road and the elder brother had got into the car and driven it towards Kelaniya. Then, the younger brother had followed the car in the trishaw. The STF took them into custody with the huge haul of heroin packed into 36 parcels by intercepting the
When The Island asked the SSP whether the suspect who parked the car at that location had been identified as the car already had heroin in it at the time and they were surveying the route used by the suspects for three months, he answered in the affirmative and added that he would be arrested. The suspects were identified as Selavathurai Sundaraj (younger) of Kotahena and Selvathurai Ravikumar (elder) of Maradana.
The Police Spokesman said that the suspects would be handed over to the Police Narcotic Bureau (PNB) yesterday and they would grill the suspects after obtaining a court order.
Asked whether any politician was involved in the drug racket and if so what action the police would take against him or her, the SSP said that investigations would be launched by the PNB and the police would not steer clear of anyone.
He was then asked why Prime Minister D. M. Jayaratne had not been questioned over the biggest ever haul detected in South Asia as he had issued a letter to the drug dealer concerned to facilitate the clearance of containers with narcotics. He claimed there was no evidence to prove the PM’s involvement in the racket and the all suspects had been arrested except
Sardan Khan, the kingpin in that drug smuggling racket. He had been arrested by the Pakistan Police, the SSP said, noting that the extradition of a suspect was a long-drawn-out process and the police had taken action to have him sent extradited.
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