Rajapaksa stooge Ajith Prasanna’s racial attack on CID investigator 

Known Rajapaksa stooge, Ajith Prasanna who was a former Major in the Army has once again launched a racial attack on IP Nishantha Silva of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) by publicly posting the latter’s Birth Certificate on Social Media. Nishantha Silva is the lead investigator in the Navy abduction case.

In his recent social media post Ajith Prasanna tries to insinuate that Nishantha, whose full name is Adrian Nishantha Silva Candappa is a Tamil and therefore is on a hunt of war heroes. However, he conveniently ignores that despite the name Candappa the race of both parents have been noted as Sinhala while Silva’s father’s employment details note he was an Army Officer. While many social media users took offence to this post, some questioned as to why Ajith Prasanna does not use a surname himself while others wondered out loud as to why there cannot be Tamil officers in the Police. 

Ajith Prasanna is also known for attempting to appear on behalf of Navy Sampath, the main accused in the Navy abduction for ransom case without being solicited. He was severely reprimanded by the former Fort Magistrate Lanka Jayaratne for appearing in courts on behalf of a client who had retained a different lawyer without the knowledge of either. 

It also must be noted that Ajith Prasanna has a checkered and less than an honourable military career. Ajith Prasanna who joined the Army on January 2, 1992, on several occasions was found guilty of conduct prejudicial to military discipline under the Army Act. In 1994, he had taken absence without leave while taking part in military operations which is an offence under military law, the Army had later on appeal approved leave for the said dates.
 
He was also found guilty of disobeying a senior officer’s orders in September 1994. Sources say, though he was ordered to join operations in Palali with a platoon of 200 soldiers, Ajith Prasanna had disobeyed orders and remained at the Sinha Regiment Headquarters. Following this incident, he was once again ordered to report to Elephant Pass which he again disregarded, sources say. Ajith Prasanna had later been found guilty on both counts before a Military Court.