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The National Police Commission has declined to interfere with a major dispute in the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption over the transfer of two Inspectors investigating undeclared assets of a prominent politician by the IGP.
The NPC yesterday said that it wouldn’t interfere with IGP Jayantha Wickremaratne’s right to transfer police officers of the rank of Inspector and below.
K. C. L. Logeswaram, Secretary to the NPC said that the power of transfer had been vested with the IGP for over two years. It had been done through a gazette notification, he said.
Responding to our queries, Logeswaram said they wouldn’t raise the recent transfer of Inspector Nihal Amarasiri and Inspector K. A. Sujatha Kumari out of the Commission. As the two officers had moved the Supreme Court against their transfer, any interference on the part of the NPC would be subjudice, the official said.
According to a sworn affidavit submitted to the Supreme Court recently, Chief Inspector C. A. Weerasinghe, Officer-in-Charge of the Investigations, has claimed that Commissioner Indra de Silva had wanted him not to proceed with the investigation. The Chief Inspector’s affidavit had been included in the Fundamental Rights application filed by Inspectors Amarasiri and Kumari.
SSP Neville Guruge, in charge of ‘Bribery’ investigations yesterday said that there was no basis for the two Inspectors’ accusation. He emphasized that the asset investigation was continuing.
The two inspectors had sought the Supreme Court’s intervention close on the heels of Inspector C. A. Premashantha also of the Bribery Commission moving the Supreme Court against his transfer. Logeswaran said that Premashantha had obtained a stay order against his transfer.
Controversy over Premashantha’s transfer followed the unceremonious removal of Piyasena Ranasinghe, Director General of the Commission after he had declined to quit the post on a directive of the Presidential Secretariat.
