SSP Vaas Gunawardene's son and wife are among the suspects

Family members of a senior police officer, SSP Vaas Gunawardene, and other police officers are accused of abducting and assaulting a young student, Nipuna Ramanayake in Malabe.

Mr. Ramanayake and his colleague, Chamila Seneviratne, have identified five suspects at six parades held before Kaduwela magistrate on Monday.

Sub Inspectors (SI) Indika Pushpakumara and Shantha Vithanage and Constables Janith Priyankara, Ruchira Chandima and Dinesh Dayawansa were identified by the victims.

Secret report

Further identifying parades are to be held on Tuesday.

All 12 suspected police officers and SSP Gunawardene’s wife, Shyamali Priyadarshani Perera, and their son, Ravindu Gunawardene, were ordered to further remand until Tuesday.

According to Ramanayake, he was abducted at gunpoint by three armed personnel in plain clothes, a few metres away from the SLIIT campus about 30 minutes after earlier verbal threats by the son of the SSP.

He says that he was taken to SSP Vas Gunawardana's residence and assaulted by armed police, SSP's son and the wife.

The police headquarters has also handed over a secret report to the magistrate over whether SSP Vaas Gunawardene was personally involved in the incident.

Former police spokesman, SSP Ranjith Gunasekara, earlier told BBC Sandeshaya that no evidence was found to suggest any involvement in the incident by SSP Gunawardene.