People captured and handed over Magalingam Sivakumar to police, but senior DIG Lalith Jayasinghe had released him and allowed him to flee to Colombo.

The suspect was arrested in Wellawatte on May 19 while planning to escape to Switzerland, where he had been employed as a cook previously.

Collapse of faith

On the following day, Jaffna people gathered in front of the Jaffna courts complex and demanded that they be shown him, as they did not have confidence in the police, intelligence say.

They accuse him of having videoed the raping of the girl.

According to intelligence, one of his relatives, a head of the legal division at a university, has a close friendship with DIG Jayasinghe.

Mahinda loyalist

Instead of investigating the top police officer, several other top policemen in Jaffna had been transferred over the incident.

Lankaenews website reports that during the period Mahinda Rajapaksa was in power, it was senior DIG Jayasinghe whom he had retained as the police chief of the south in order to commit all his illegal acts in the province.

After Rajapaksa was toppled, Jayasinghe was transferred to the south.

Invisible political hand behind Jaffna unrest

Meanwhile, justice minister Wijedasa Rajapaksa told the media on May 22 that blood thirsty politicians wanting to achieve their petty political objectives by using terrorism and chavunism were still at work in the country.

The CID is investigating as to whether a political hand was behind the recent disturbances in Jaffna, he said.

(picture: lankaenews)