2 wives come forward to claim Samayan's body; funeral house deserted
The dead body of underground leader Samayan who was killed brutally by gunshots day-before-yesterday in Kalutara is lying at a relative's house of Samayan's legal wife Sugandhi Caldera at Gonawela, Pattiwela, Kelaniya, it is reported.
During the last phase of Samayan's life he had left his legal wife and 2 children and had gone with another woman and the latter who lives in
Kaduwela had come close to the location where the prison bus was, after the tragedy and had started wailing and shouting that the third anniversary of both she and Samayan fell the day-before-yesterday. Whatever it is, though she wanted to accept the responsibility over his body, she was not permitted to do so as she was not bound to him by a legal marriage. Thus the body was not allowed to be transported to Kaduwela area where Samayan was last living and instead it was taken to Pattiwela, Kelaniya yesterday (28) where his true married wife was living, police said. Though the body was taken to the house in Pattiwela where Samayan's legal wife and 2 children were, police say that apart from relatives of the family and a few others, a large number of people had avoided attending the funeral. It was said that since he was an underworld criminal, those who were linked to him were scared.Samayan's first wedding in fact had taken place some years before this. He had actually covered up information about this legal marriage and children at the interview he had with a national newspaper in 2015 but had given false information speaking only about 1 child instead of 2 children and that he had got married in 2014 (it may sometimes be about the second marriage). Whatever it is, more close news sources say that he was someone who carried out his matrimonial life without caring much about the family unit as such. It was families of Angoda Lokka and Nawagamuwa of those who died as a result of Samayan who lit fire-crackers both yesterday and day-before-yesterday to coincide with Samayan's death. In the meantime the already suspected Angoda Lokka's family over this murder had prepared milk rice to rejoice the occasion, it was reported.