INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The main suspect and the young couple arrested in connection with the death of a 16-year-old schoolgirl in Kalutara last month have been
further remanded until July 21.The trio was produced before the Kalutara Chief Magistrate Neetha Hemali Halpandeniya earlier today (July
07).On 06 May, the naked corpse of a 16-year-old girl was found near the railway tracks in Kalutara, after she reportedly fell to her death
from the third floor of a five-storey hotel in the area.Danushka Gayan Sahabandu, a 29-year-old resident of Isuru Uyana in Kalutara, was
suspect too were later arrested, along with another individual, identified as the driver of the car in which the group travelled.During
preliminary interrogations, the main suspect denied murder accusations levelled against him
He told the police that the girl had, in fact, jumped off the hotel building after receiving a phone call.He also revealed that he visited
the hotel on May 06 with the young couple in question, and the 16-year-old after renting two rooms on the third floor of the hotel
He had also admitted to consuming alcohol with them.The main suspect had also mentioned that he was not acquainted with the schoolgirl prior
from exerting pressure on the witnesses in the case, the chief magistrate also ordered him to report to the Criminal Investigation
Department (CID) on the last Sunday of every month between 9 a.m
and 12 p.m.Meanwhile, the private tutor arrested for sexually abusing 16 female students in Kalutara too was further remanded until July 21.
