Model Chulpadmendra Kumarapathirana says that she was questioned today (2) by the CID inquiring how she knew journalist Keerthi Rathnayake.
Chulpadmendra made headlines earlier this year when she was involved in the Mrs. Sri Lanka finals fiasco at the Nelum Pokuna Theatre.
Talking to journalists outside the CID headquarters in Colombo, Chulpadmendra said that she was contacted by many journalists including foreign journalists during the aftermath of the Mrs. Sri Lanka finals incident, which caused headlines around the world.
She also insisted that she hasn’t even met the journalist Keerthi Rathnayake, and it is unfair to question her over a phone call she had with him.
Ratnayake, a former army intelligence officer and regular freelance contributor to the London-based, Sri Lanka-focused news website Lanka-e-News, was summoned to the Kollupitiya Police Station in Colombo in western Sri Lanka on August 14 to answer questions about information he had provided to the Indian embassy in Colombo concerning a possible terrorist attack on the embassy, according to Lanka-e-News and news reports.
After reporting to the police station, Ratnayake, who covers defense and politics, was subsequently ordered to be held for 90 days at the station under the Prevention of Terrorism Act, while his home was searched and computers and phones confiscated, according to the reports. (NewsWire)