The abducted Disabled police officer who worked for Gen. Fonseka dumped near Town Hall by abductors after torturing him to lie about the General

(Lanka-e-News, Feb.15, 2010, 9.45AM) A disabled Police officer J. Ashok Kumara residing at ‘ Kusume gedera’ Ragama working for General Sarath Fonseka who was abducted on the 11th of Feb. was found abandoned near the Town Hall yesterday after being tortured to force him tell lies about Gen. Fonseka . The abductors had dumped him and gone. The group who abducted him had inflicted cruel torture on Kumara by painful plucking of his hair one by one from his eye brow. According to Ashok Kumara he was abducted by a group in police uniform and taken in a police vehicle . Later he was blindfolded and mid way transferred to another vehicle. After they traveled about an hour , the blindfold was removed . The group who was there wore black dresses.

After taking him to an unknown destination he was subjected to torture . He was forced to state and admit the following statements as true : 1. that the General gave him a weapon 2. that he saw General Fonseka and Ajuna Ranatunge engaged in sexual relationship with Upeksha Swarnamali the actress who played the role as General’s assistant in the teledrama ‘Paba’ 3. that when preparing Kumara’s pension payment, the General Fonseka who was the Army Commander at that time made obscene advances to his wife.

The abductors have tortured Kumara forcing him to surrender to these requests .When Kumara had stubbornly refused , these torturers have brought him and dumped him in the vicinity of Town Hall stating ‘ go and complain to any police , we are not afraid’, and gone away. Ashok Kumara who is undergoing treatment at the Ragama Hospital said , he could identify the culprits in Police uniform and those in black suits who tortured him if he sees them again.