Wellawatta Indian couple died by taking poison Was a casino involvement the reason?

Wellawatta Indian couple died by taking poison ....

Was a casino involvement the reason?

After finding the dead bodies of an Indian couple

last night at a hotel in Wellawatta whose deaths aroused suspicion, on police investigations carried out, a number of factors related to the deaths have now been uncovered.

This couple who had come to Sri Lanka from India last Friday the 27th, it is reported were a couple who were addicted to casino games. It was also understood that throughout the period of about one week of their stay in the hotel they had constantly been visiting night clubs for gambling activities. The police who inspected their room at No. 7 down 40th Lane, Wellawatta where the couple were staying, after a message given by the manager of that hotel were able to find the dead couple stretched on the bed and a vial which was foaming at its end even at that time was found near the bed. The police were able to observe that the foam of the poison concerned were found smeared across their mouths. It is still not known whether the deceased Indian national 28 year old girl and her 31 year old husband had taken the poison because of a financial issue relating to casino activity or some other reason. Police investigations are being conducted in association with CCTV videos in the hotel to ascertain whether any external visitors had come and gone to the room when the couple were in the room. As such, police inquiries are being conducted to check whether this poison was taken by them on their own or else someone else had made them drink this poison and then gone away.

Though they had reported to the entry office of the hotel from time to time of their going in and coming out, after they had locked up their room on Wednesday night they had not come out the whole of Thursday and because no response was shown to external gestures or signals of the hotel staff, the manager had decided to use a duplicate key to check the room concerned when the two dead bodies had been found.

The police said that after the post-mortem is carried out on the deceased couple, the bodies would be handed over to the Indian High Commission.

Further investigations regarding the incident are in progress.