Matale SSP I.B.T. Sugathapala said, that an investigation is to be initiated where a retired senior Police officer had been captured on Friday , while he was stuffing a young domestic aide into the boot of a vehicle in the Matale town.
The boy appeared to be around ten years, according to the pictures published in a news paper on Saturday. The Matale Police said that the officer concerned was a retired Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police and a resident of Dambulla. Residents of the Matale town who had seen the officer taking out the boy from the boot of his vehicle, which had been parked near the Matale clock tower on Friday had alerted journalists.
Journalists in turn had hid inside a trishaw and captured the officer returning with the boy, who was carrying some bags. The retired DIG then had stuffed the boy into the boot of the vehicle again and sped away .