9.9.2008
Sept
09, Colombo: Nuwan Udaya Gunathilaka, also known as "Kudu
Nuwan" who has been accused of the rape of a women
in a city’s Night club was remanded by the Colombo
Magistrate Courts this evening.
Gunathilaka
is supposedly a close confidante of Sri Lanka’s
controversial Labor Minister Mervyn Silva.
The
accused had surrendered himself this morning to the Kolpetty
police and was ordered to be remanded until 18th of this
month upon presentation in courts.
The
lawyers of the accused had requested the Court to detain
the accused in a location other than the Magazine prison
where he has received several death threats. Accordingly
the Court ordered the accused to be detained at the Colombo
Remand Prison.
The
police have informed the Courts that a probe in to the
incident has already begun. Also Nuwa Udaya Gunathilaka
is one of the main suspects, who assaulted the State Rupawahini’s
News Director last December with Minister Mervyn Silva.
CP