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Big probe into PSD policemen's acts: two remanded by JAYAMPATHY JAYASINGHE The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) has launched a major investigation into several complaints it had received against some policemen attached to the Presidential Security Division (PSD), alleged to be involved in 10 criminal acts during the last two years . CID sources told the "Sunday Observer" that at least 15 policemen from the PSD will be taken in for questioning in this connection during the next few days. Meanwhile, two policemen from the PSD alleged to be involved over incidents of disruptions and causing damage to a stage where Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe had addressed a United National Party (UNP) meeting at Maradana in 1999, have been remanded. CID officers probing into that incident have recovered several furniture items from a policeman attached to the PSD and residing at the Slave Island police quarters when they searched his premises. The person who had provided furniture to the UNP meeting at Maradana too had complained that his vehicle was stolen by some persons on the day of the incident. The CID officers who probed into the incident where several media persons were assaulted by the PSD officers in Colombo a few years back, have recovered a cellular phone belonging to a media person. Several other expensive cameras belonging to media personnel were also lost and some of those recovered were damaged, CID sources said. Meanwhile, four persons who had allegedly assaulted the "Sunday Leader" editor, Lasantha Wickrematunga at his residence in Nugegoda in 1995, were arrested by a team of CID sleuths. One of the four suspects is the owner of a wine store and another had worked for a finance company while the other two were policemen previously attached to the PSD. Two more suspects who had allegedly assaulted the singing duo, Rukantha and Chandralekha, a few years back, were also arrested by the CID. One of them was a driver of the Bibile police station and previously attached to the PSD and, the other, a labourer, according to CID sources. |
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