Sameera Senaratna questioned on the suspicion that he had made others fire at his own vehicle
An incident where the Chief Administrative Officer of Malabe SAITM Private Medical College Sameera Senaratna being shot at sometime back in the night hours at a spot close to that university was reported and the team of police officers who conducted an inquiry into the incident were constantly plagued with the baffling point of how the person inside the vehicle managed to remain unharmed under such circumstances.
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concerned and most of them had commented saying that this could be a 'role-play'. Some others had made criticisms that at a moment when the SAITM protest was in full swing around the country this was an attempt to grab its advantages by kindling an opportunity for sympathy. Not only the initial suspicion created but even further details were scrutinised. The police afterwards were able to find several factors and were convinced that this was a creative act deduced from the evidence of the ambulance driver who arrived at the spot of the crime and the discrepancy or contradictions between him and Sameera where the evidence of the latter was concerned and also on subsequent inquiries made about suspicious characters in association with CCTV footage.Accordingly it has been understood that the sum of all this pointed to the fact that this was something planned out by Sameera himself and therefore he was taken into custody yesterday and interrogated at length in connection with the incident by a special police team, Police Headquarters report. Though all details in this respect have still not been officially released to the media, according to news reported it is learned that Sameera had secured the assistance of 2 individuals to open gunfire while help from a politician of Kaduwela Provincial Council too has been obtained. The previously referred to 2 persons have now fled the area, it was reported.
This situation has now achieved a complex facelift as such based on the fact that by using weapons the public have been led astray and in addition Sameera has made false complaints to the police with the motive of seeking protection. Police investigations are continuing to apprehend all suspects involved and sometime in the future this incident would be reported to courts via the police.
Previous news items by Gossip Lanka concerning the incident
Ambulance driver's statement about shooting incident of SAITM Chef Executive, contradictory, here
Shooting at vehicle of SAITM Chief Administrator ... role-acting?, here