Prison Department’s Rehabilitation Commissioner and Magazine Prison’s former superintendent Emil Ranjan Lamahewa and IP Neomal Rangajeewa of the Police Narcotic Bureau who were admitted to the Colombo National Hospital were transferred to the Welikada Prison Hospital today.
The Colombo Magistrate who today visited the Colombo National Hospital remanded the two suspects till April 10. The CID arrested them last night in connection with the killing of 27 Welikada Prison inmates in November 2012.
However, it is unclear as to what medical conditions have warranted for the duo being admitted.
In September 2017, the Department of Prisons revised the rules of admittance to the hospital. Accordingly, Minister of Prisons had directed that the medical advice of three doctors need to be obtained for those who wish to be admitted to the Prison hospital. Prior to that inmates were admitted to the Prison’s Hospital based on the advice of one medical doctor.
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