Colombo: The Sri Lanka fugitive police chief surrendered to the authorities and was postponed in custody Wednesday (May 19), weeks after his arrest was ordered on an abused raid that killed an official colleague.
A Justice of the Peace within the southern metropolis of Matara ordered the Police Inspector General Deshabandu Tennakoon to be stored in custody till Thursday, when his demand for deposit will probably be considered.
Tennakoon is accused of authorizing an unlucky bust of medication in 2023, presumably in opposition to inner laws, which triggered a battle of weapons between the competing police models.
He surrendered after the police broke into his non-public home on Tuesday and seized over 1,000 bottles of liqueur, his service revolver and two telephones.
On Monday, the Court of Appeal had rejected the Petition of Tennakoon to cancel a arrest warrant issued in opposition to him for the dying of an officer through the drug raid within the metropolis of the southern coast resort in Weligama.
Another officer was critically injured within the accident and no medicine had been discovered.
On Monday the Court of Appeal declared that the lack to establish the police chief for nearly three weeks had undermined the belief of the general public each within the police and within the prison justice system.
“How did you handle to flee the arrest and to enter the court docket home stealthily?” The prosecutor Dileepa Peeris requested throughout Wednesday’s procedures.
