This story is from August 12, 2020

Sri Lanka to send blood samples of gangster’s parents

Officials of the Indian high commission in Colombo on Tuesday confirmed that the Sri Lankan government had initiated the process to send blood samples of gangster Maddumage Chandana Lasantha Perera alias Angoda Lokka’s parents to Tamil Nadu. A man found dead in Coimbatore on July 3 has been identified by local police as Lokka, a most wanted criminal in Sri Lanka. The DNA to be extracted from blood samples of his parents will help ascertain the identity of the deceased, by cross-matching that with the one collected from the body. Coimbatore police were alerted about the man’s death by a Sri Lankan newspaper article on July 23.
Sri Lanka to send blood samples of gangster’s parents
Before and after: How Sri Lankan gangster Maddumage Chandana Lasantha Perera alias Angoda Lokka looked before plastic surgery (left) and after the procedure.
COIMBATORE: Officials of the Indian high commission in Colombo on Tuesday confirmed that the Sri Lankan government had initiated the process to send blood samples of gangster Maddumage Chandana Lasantha Perera alias Angoda Lokka’s parents to Tamil Nadu. A man found dead in Coimbatore on July 3 has been identified by local police as Lokka, a most wanted criminal in Sri Lanka. The DNA to be extracted from blood samples of his parents will help ascertain the identity of the deceased, by cross-matching that with the one collected from the body.
Coimbatore police were alerted about the man’s death by a Sri Lankan newspaper article on July 23.
“There are two ways to send the samples to India. The Sri Lankan government can hand it over to the Indian high commission in Colombo or they can send it to their deputy high commission office in Chennai in Tamil Nadu,” a senior official in the commission in Colombo told TOI.
According to sources, blood samples were collected from Angoda Lokka’s father Maddumage Layanal Perera and his mother Chandrika Perera for the DNA test. “Samples taken from the parents could give a 99% accuracy in match. Lokka was arrested by the Sri Lankan police in 2014 and his fingerprints taken. The fingerprint samples will be sent along with the blood samples to India for further verification,” said a senior Lankan police officer.
On Monday, Sri Lankan police spokesman Jaliya Senaratne told journalists in Colombo that diplomatic level intervention was on through the ministry of foreign affairs to confirm the death of Lokka in India.
Lokka died of cardiac arrest in Coimbatore city on July 3 night and the postmortem examination was carried out at the Coimbatore Medical College and Hospital. Lokka’s body was cremated in Madurai by lawyer Sivakami Sundari and a female aide Amani Dhanji, 27, who hailed from Sri Lanka.
Viscera from his liver, stomach, kidneys and small intestine was taken and sent to the Forensic Science laboratory in Chennai. “Once the DNA is retrieved from the viscera, the forensic science experts would compare it to the samples taken from Lokka’s parents,” said a Coimbatore crime-branch CID officer.

Angoda Lokka, 35, who was residing in Coimbatore city as Pradeep Singh since 2018, is believed to have moved to Balaji Nagar in the city in February 2020. The gangster got a nose job done to conceal his identity. Coimbatore police arrested Amani Dhanji, lawyer Sivakami Sundarai and her friend Dhyaneswaran. Amani Dhanji had visited Madurai a few months ago and met lawyer Sivagami Sundari.
Meanwhile, the CB-CID team wound up its first phase of inquiry and left Madurai on Monday night after DSP Muralidaran tested positive for Covid-19. Having worked closely with Muralidaran, the team members are to isolate themselves.
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