Two-year old beaten to death with broomstick -- Update

Two-year old beaten to death with broomstick -- Update

A good deal of fresh information has been revealed in police investigations being carried out in relation to the murder of the child who passed away because of several blows of the broomstick recently in Athurugiriya area.

The mother of the 02 year old Minul Devthis is someone who had messed up her life as a result of a

number of illicit affairs and she has had another 6 year old son from her marriage. Her first husband living in Badulla had been caring for that child and in the process she had got involved in an illicit relationship thus being at centre of several conflicts. This woman named Dilani had eventually left them and come with her younger child. She had accompanied the child as mentioned and had subsequently carried on an illicit romance with an ice-cream vendor in Mahiyangana area and after spending some time with him had left him too and had found a job in a garment factory in Wangurammulla. During that period of service it was with this youth named Vimukthi who was a supervisor there that she had struck up this friendship.

Vimukthi had been in Army service and had also been a rugger player. He had come to know Dilani after having secured a job at this garment factory. He too had been a married person and it was at a time that his wife was pregnant that he had got involved with Dilani. He had even secured the house on rent for Dilani where the tragic incident happened at a monthly rent of Rs. 4000. During the process he was helping Dilani he had been of the habit of frequenting this house from time to time and even putting up there while his wife had given birth to a baby just 3 months ago.

Dilani who attended to the burial proceedings of her son was killed in the Athurugiriya house she had said that she did not wish to live in that house and had gone to a new dwelling in Kottawa after which this illicit alliance too had come to a close in about 3 weeks. It was after that the idea of going back to her old dwelling by giving a missed call to her husband. But not being able to hide the true story of the dead child and achieve this desire of hers she finally got cordoned. Since the information she said about this child was of an extremely horrid type, the husband in Badulla had handed over investigations regarding it to the police.

Since she had said that the deceased child was killed and was hidden in Nagahawatta, Ovitigama, Meegoda the police had taken action to commence activities to exhume the child's body at the location cited by the woman previously. However the body was not recovered. But when interrogated once more she had said that although she had visited the place where the child's body was buried because of the weather with rain associated floods she had noted the body floating. Therefore another pit had been dug and the body buried at another location at yet another place in the same land on this second day.

Dilani who had said that the deceased Minul Devthis after having been struck by the broomstick it has been noted that his neck had fallen to a side which had made her stricken with extreme fear had then taken the dead body dressed fresh clothes, adorned with shoes and even a hat to Vimukthi's ancestral home in Nagahamulla, Ovitigama, Meegoda around 11 in the night giving the impression that the child was in a slumber. She had also admitted that on instructions of the previous illicit husband the cute child had been stripped of the clothing and was buried that way. Since it was noted the manner in which the dead body had been floating on the second day with water on the body a pit had been dug underneath an olive tree in the adjoining abandoned bare land; thus the dead body being hidden once again in the pit, she had said.

Though Vimukthi who committed this macabre killing had done so at a time when he was a father of a three-month old baby, he had used sharp strategies in concealing all this from his wife. His wife incidentally was a teacher at a prominent international school. Whatever it is, after Vimukthi too was taken into custody based on Dilani's evidence after which everything had come to light.