From Lanka News Web
There is justifiable suspicion that it was on the recommendation of former president Mahinda Rajapaksa that Don Sarath Kumara Edirisinghe alias Singapore Sarath, a suspect-turned-state-witness in the murder of Kelaniya Pradeshiya Sabha member Hasitha Madawala, has been appointed a coordinating secretary to public security minister John Amaratunga, law and peace ministry sources say.
Singapore Sarath is the owner of Samanala Restaurant in Kiribathgoda and was involved in illicit alcohol and other rackets in the area when he was a coordinating secretary to former minister Mervyn Silva.
The CID has reported to the magistrate’s court that the son of Singapore Sarath had given the pistol to Madawala’s killer Rangana Kumara, who is the son of his elder sister. After the murder was committed, Singapore Sarath had kept Rangana in hiding and had planned to send him to Singapore, but he was arrested at the airport.
The first suspect of the Madawala murder, Singapore Sarath was freed following three months in remand custody on the order of the former president. At a request of Mervyn, Mahinda had ordered the attorney general’s department, which was under him at the time, to release him under any pretext. Initially, the department objected, but after the president used his filthy language on a top official there, Singapore Sarath was declared a state witness and freed.
Later, when he met Singapore Sarath, Mahinda had said that Rangana too, could be given a presidential pardon once things cooled down. A person with such a record being appointed a coordinating secretary of the law and peace ministry will leave good governance at the mercy of the gods, a top official of the department told our reporter.
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