Travel ban on five individuals over businessman’s killing

25 August 2016 04:43 pm

Colombo Additional Magistrate Nishantha Peiris today issued a travel ban order on five individuals, who are alleged to have been involved in the abduction of the Bambalapitiya businessman whose body was found in Mawanella last night.

The CCD filing a motion in Court sought court permission to impose a travel ban on the five individuals who are residents in the Wellawatte and Dematagoda areas.

The CCD also obtained a court order to send blood samples recovered at the scene where the crime had taken place to the Gintech institute to compare DNA samples with the victims father's blood.

The prosecution informed court that it had initiated a broad investigation over phone calls received from the suspects prior to the incident.(Shehan Chamika Silva)