Sex
and abduction scandal: Police hunt for WPC politico
Police are hunting for a prominent UNP Western Provincial Council
member who handsomely won the recent elections for allegedly having
abducted a businessman after the family accused him of sexually
abusing their under-aged daughter.
Police
said the politician had carried out the alleged abduction after
the family went to the National Child Protection Authority to lodge
a complaint about the sexual abuse of their daughter. Police said
that according to a complaint, the businessman was allegedly abducted
from his office in Bambalapitiya on Friday around noon by the politician
and a gang of seven armed men who demanded that his 16-year-old
daughter be handed over to the Provincial Councillor. It is alleged
that the abductors came in a Prado Jeep and a white car.
The
businessman had allegedly been abducted along with one of his employees
and taken to Malabe where the abductors demanded that the daughter
be handed over, police said. The businessman was then brought back
to his office around 4 p.m. and told to call his youngest daughter
and ask her to come to the premises. The employee was allegedly
beaten and let off near Borella.
It
is alleged that the angry businessman had then tried to the businessman,
his wife, and the elder daughter but they escaped and rand down
Duplication Road, stopped a passing car and got to the Havelock
Road Police Field Forces Headquarters and later to the Bambalapitiya
station where they made a complaint around 8.30 p.m.
Police
said the businessman was now in hiding along with his family and
he had not asked for protection. They said there was evidence that
the politician was previously involved even with the elder daughter
and had allegedly abused the younger girl sexually from the time
she was about 14. |