Girl faked her own kidnapping in Wellawatta!

Daughter engages in 'kappam role' with lover ..... to take 20 lakhs from father!
An incident where a a girl who tried to deceive her father by putting a false show was foiled  by police intervention. She had played this'role' saying that her lover had abducted her with the ulterior motive of hoodwinking her father for a 'kappama' of Rs. 20 lakhs. This incident is reported from Wellawatta and the incident is as follows:

                                   The said girl who is 17 years old lives down Roxiwatta Road in Wellawatta with her parents. Day-before-yesterday around 2.30 in the afternoon a three-wheeler had arrived and stopped near the house where she was living and two young men who got down from the vehicle had forcibly put the girl who was at that time in the compound into the vehicle.

When those inside the house had come out after hearing her shouts, she was not to be found but had only seen the three-wheeler which had the number-plate covered, flying at a speed. Her father, a three-wheeler businessman was agitated and had begun to search all over for the daughter when he received a mobile phone call from the daughter's mobile phone itself that evening and the caller had a rough male voice. What they said was that the girl has already been kidnapped and if she is to come back alive, it could be settled by giving a sum of Rs. 20 lakhs and to come to the place they would instruct.

At that moment the parents of the girl could hear the girl saying with a burbling voice, "Aney .... thaththe .... save me!" across the phone. Though the people who asked for this 'kappam' threatened not to tell anything about this to the police, failing which the daughter's life they said would be at stake. The girl's father however took steps to notify about this to the police in secret.

It was after that that Wellawatta Police and officers of the Colombo CID began investigations while the numbers of Wellawatta businessman's numbers were covered with a system whereby the telephone lines of the suspects could be detected. As phone calls from these suspects could come in the night, he was instructed to remain alert by the police. As anticipated, there had been telephone calls from the girl's phone as well as from telephone booths in the night once again. The police were able to detect that those calls had originated from Matugama.

According to instructions given by the police, the businessman brought down the figure from 20 lakhs to 15 lakhs and said so over the phone. As such, the suspects said that they would notify the next day the place where the money should be brought. What they said the following day was to come with the money close to a rubber plantation in Yatadolawatta in Matugama, alone.

The girl's father then agreed to the arrangements, and on these clues the police went to the spot so indicated and had provided the necessary protection having disguised themselves as villagers.

As this strategy was successful, one suspect got close to the bag of money which the businessman left going across the estate when the police managed to arrest him. According to the information received by him, the police were able to locate the place close to where the girl was detained and so the girl was in safe hands.

On this occasion, as the police felt somewhat suspicious about the manner the girl and the boy behaved and on observation of their gestures led them to interrogate the girl too, continuously.

What came to light in that instance was that this intended robbery was the brainwave of her lover and that this whole episode had been carried out with the knowledge of this girl and it was a false 'role' that she had played in order to secure money from her father to be given to the lover.

There has also been a friend who supported the suspect in this connection.

As a consequence, the police took steps to take the girl too into custody apart from the two youth of the gang together with the owner of the three-wheel.

The suspects are expected to be produced in courts.