The murder of two police officers for fearlessly opposing malpractices at the East PC polls are yet to be investigated, Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe has alleged.
Mr. Wickremesinghe said he had been told by top police officials that the Pillayan Group had shot the two dead in Batticaloa, one on the 15th and other on the 16th of May.
Speaking to UNP activists from the Central Province who campaigned for the party at the May 10th polls, he also said, "Yesterday (May 16th), a bomb exploded near Colombo Hilton. Police officers who had been protecting Pillayan and his councilors were targeted. We have doubts about the investigation into this bomb attack. According to today's Lankadeepa newspaper, the motorcycle used by the bomber had been owned by Vijayapalan Jinendran alias Jina, who works at Pillayan Group's office in Trincomalee."
"Yesterday afternoon, Trincomalee Police arrested Jina. But, this morning, the investigating team had been removed on the instructions of the Defence Ministry and Vijayapalan handed over to the TID. The Defence Ministry's intervention is suspicious. The government covered up the murders of T. Maheswaran and others. We suspect that the bomb attack investigation too, would be covered up," the Opposition Leader said.
"Sri Lanka has Asia's oldest police service. However, Rajapaksa's dictatorial fury is trying to destroy that police service. Therefore, all peace-lovers should unite to protect the country's police service for the sake of law and order and peace," he added.
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