Leading Businessman Arrested On Charges of Rape

 

Greenlanka Shipping Ltd. Managing Director Prashan Nanayakkara was arrested and produced before Colombo Fort Magistrate’s Court today on charges of rape and was released on a surety of one million rupees.

He was arrested earlier today following investigations on a complaint filed by a young woman, who said that she was sexually exploited by the said individual for a period of 10 years and that she was also brutally raped and assaulted.

The incident of rape took place in 2013 at a housing complex in Bambalapitiya, the victimized girl said. She had filed a complaint at Bambalapitiya Police Station, but it had not initiated an investigation. Following this she had reported to the IGP who directed the matter to Police Special Investigations Unit.