Child runs away for fear of making him a monk -Eppawala OIC

The Tambuttegama Magistrate Courts on Saturday ordered to remand the electrician involved in the kidnapping incident of the nine-year-old boy residing in Kiralogama, Eppawala and a driver from Rikilagaskada who gave accommodation to them until January 4.

The main suspect, Asela Priayantha Fernando, an electrician, and the owner of the Johnland Estate house, S. Kumara Nanayakkara, a 42-year-old father of three were remanded. The Eppawala Police referred the abducted child

who was taken into Police custody to the forensic doctor of Anuradhapura Teaching Hospital on Saturday afternoon and the child was admitted to Ward 24 of Anuradhapura Teaching Hospital due to showing a mild illness.

Eppawala OIC Chief Inspector Susantha Ekanayake told the Magistrate that family background led the child to leave the house. He told the Courts that once the child’s father who is working in the Army returns home for vacation; he will make the child a monk.

A team of officers from the Eppawala Police station was able to find the nine-year-old boy residing who went missing from a house in Rikillagaskada Johnland Estate on Friday night. On Thursday night, the child’s mother had received a call from the electrician and her son.

The suspected electrician had told the child’s mother that he had taken the child on his request and he would be brought home safely.

The child too had told his mother that he was safe. The owner of the house who was remanded has told Police that the electrician had told him that the child was his son.

Meanwhile, the child has told Police he had got into a three-wheeler in which the electrician had been travelling and had asked him to take him away from home as his parents were planning to make him a monk.