The two officers-in-charge (OICs) of the Women and Child Affairs Bureaus at Nikaweratiya and Kotawehera police stations have been interdicted.

The two OICs have been interdicted in connection with the incident of a teenager being inhumanely assaulted, which was reported recently by Ada Derana.

The Police Media Unit said that two Women Sub-Inspectors of Police, attached to Nikaweratiya HQ Police and Kotawehera Police Station, have been interdicted with effect from Sunday (Jan. 05) for negligence of duties.

They are accused of turning back the victim’s mother and grandmother without recording the complaint, when they had arrived at the respective police stations to file a complaint over the assault along with video footage of the incident. 

On Friday (03), police arrested two women and a man for brutally assaulting a 13-year-old girl in Nikaweratiya.

They were produced before the Nikaweratiya Magistrate’s Court by Kotawehera Police the following day (04) and remanded until January 16.

Ada Derana had reported the said assault incident, which had been recorded on a mobile phone by a neighbor.

The video shows the girl’s stepmother repeatedly beating her with a cricket bat while she is then joined by her sister, who was identified as a Grama Niladhari officer.

Acting under the instructions of Senior Superintendent of Police of Nikaweratiya, a team of Kotawehera Police officers had taken the two women and the girl’s father into custody.

The victim, who was admitted to the Nikaweratiya Hospital, has been transferred to the Kurunegala Teaching Hospital for medical tests.