CID continues probe into killing of two policemen

The special CID team, appointed by the Inspector General of Police to probe into the killing of two police constables at the Vavunathivu checkpoint in Batticaloa, has recorded statements from several persons, including the villagers in Vavunathivu, yesterday. 

“They have questioned several people in the area,” Police Spokesman SP Ruwan Gunasekara said. 

They have also interrogated former LTTE cadre Rasanayagam Saravanandan, who surrendered to police over the killing incident under the instructions of a senior SP of the Batticaloa Police. 

The suspect, 48, had claimed that he was responsible for the killing the two policemen – Dinesh Ganesh (28) and Niroshan Indika (35), whose bodies were found last Friday with gunshot injuries – and had surrendered to the Kilinochchi Police Station. They were found dead at the police checkpoint at Vavunathivu while on duty. The police sources said that according to the post-mortem report, the two police constables, who were shot at close range, had cut injuries.

According to police sources, Sarvanandan, a father of four children and a former training instructor of the now defunct LTTE in Kilinochchi, was involved in organising the LTTE’s commemoration ceremonies last week to remember the LTTE cadres who died during the war in the Eastern Province. (SS)