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Police dragging feet on fatal assault: JVP
By Nalaka Nonis
The JVP has accused Anuradhapura police of being slow to apprehend supporters of a deputy minister and a provincial minister in Anuradhapura who allegedly killed one of its supporters.

JVP Parliamentarian Ranaweera Pathirana told The Sunday Times that his party had complained to President Mahinda Rajapaksa about the lacklustre interest shown by police to arrest the suspects of the killing of Bandula Marambage (42).

Bandula Marambage was allegedly severely assaulted by the supporters of deputy minister Duminda Dissanayake and provincial minister H.B. Semasinghe on March 24 when he was coming home with some others after attending a political meeting.

The victim who was transferred to the Colombo National Hospital from Anuradhapura died on April 4 due to injuries suffered. Mr. Pathirana claimed that police were initially not interested to take down the complaint regarding the assault and instead entertained a complaint from the suspects.

However the police finally had to record the complaint, he said. He said that though police had arrested three out of six suspects, action is still proceeding slowly.

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