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Hit-and-run case: Driver of Defender further remanded
Mar 18, 201903:17 PM
Hit-and-run case: Driver of Defender further remanded

Navindu Ratnayake, the driver of the Defender involved in the accident which killed the Borella Traffic OIC has been further remanded.

 

As per the order of the Colombo Additional Magistrate, he has been remanded until the 01st of April.

 

Traffic OIC of the Borella Police, IP Sarathchandra, 51, had been en route to the Kollupitiya Police Station, when he had met with an accident when the motorcycle he was riding was hit by a speeding Defender in Bambalapitiya, at around 4.35 am on February 24.

 

The OIC was critically injured in the accident and was admitted to the Colombo National Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries on Saturday (March 09).

 

The Defender involved in the crash had fled the scene and was later found by police in Pelawatte, Battaramulla.

 

Eight persons including the driver of the vehicle and a female were arrested by the Bambalapitiya police in connection with the hit-and-run case.

 

Seven of the suspects were granted bail by the court while the driver was remanded.

 

 

 

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