Who gave orders to the police to shoot? By trying to blame on inferiors entire Dept. fouled up: Ilangakoon's IGP appointment hangs in the balance

The Rajapakse regime higher ups trying to save their skins by making the two relatively lower rung police officers who are remanded as scapegoats in the Katunayake police shooting has caused deep despair and disillusionment among the entire police Dept . as well as the two Senior IPs who are in remand custody , according to reports reaching Lanka e news.

Hence , the two IPs , senior IP Ratnayake and IP Ranasinghe who are in remand are getting ready to expose in court the actual culprits who gave them orders to shoot.

A senior DIG who wished to remain anonymous speaking to Lanka e news , said , because of the camouflage measures resorted to in order to cover up and safeguard those true culprits , and the betrayal of the inferiors in the process , the police Dept. Govt. information officers, officers of the Inspectors grade and officers of the training divisions are bitterly disappointed and disgruntled .

The DIG while declaring that the Seeduwa police OIC went to the venue of the shooting on an order and asked who summoned the Seeduwa police when the Katunayake police officers flopped. Did the Seeduwa police OIC send his police group by an aircraft from heaven.? he further questioned. If the police Inspectors of the Seeduwa police are taken into custody , then how come the higher ups who gave them the orders are free? Obviously , because the true culprit- the powerful authority who gave the orders to shoot will be exposed that , without revealing the factual position ,the blame has been fastened on these officers in this hush -hush operation , the senior DIG further pointed out.

The CID made their records not in the daily record book which an ordinary police officer does, but in a page of a book pad. The CID officers who recorded the statements of the two Inspectors Ratnayake and Ranasinghe , ought to have pasted the pad notes , but in fear that these matters will get to be known , have so far not pasted them , he added.

Meanwhile at the media discussion held by the IGP on the evening of the 30th , he stated he did not give orders to shoot.

This confusion created due to the desperate cover up measures that are being invented ,the conflicts have so deepened that the present acting IGP Ilangakoon is also driven into a situation where he may be denied the IGP appointment . Ilangakoon is the most senior DIG at the moment. But he is a stickler for rules. He is popular for his not swaying and stooping to political influences . Hence , because of the fear that if he is appointed as IGP , the true culprits who gave the orders for the ghastly shooting is likely to get exposed, senior DIG S M Wickremasinghe who is in charge of the Presidential security division is to be appointed to that post , the DIG speaking to Lanka e news revealed .. He added that the President had remarked ‘ I have no faith in anyone now. I have faith only in Wicki’

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