Sri Lankan don had done nose job to hide identity

COIMBATORE: Sri Lankan don Maddumage Chandana Lasantha Perera alias Angoda Lokka had undergone a nose job in Balaji Nursing Home at RS Puram in the city in February this year to hide his identity, said a CB-CID source.
According to the source, Lokka told doctors he was planning to act in movies and he wanted to correct his nose by making it a little bigger. The surgery was performed on February 19 and he was discharged from the hospital three days later on 22. He was accompanied by Madurai-based lawyer Sivakami Sundari and her friend Dhyaneswaran.
The source said, “He got the nose job done with an intention to hide his identity. We have collected details from the hospital.” Doctors have hand over photos of Lokka that they had taken before and after the plastic surgery to the investigation agency. The hospital authorities, however, refused to speak about the surgery.
Lokka used to visit Royal Fitness Club on Vilankurichi Road at Cheran Maa Nagar regularly for workout. “He identified himself as Pradeepsingh. He joined the gym along with Dhyaneswaran in August 2019. He mostly came for workout in the evening hours. He did not speak to anyone, including instructors. He used to spend more than an hour in the gym daily,” said Prabhu, who runs the gym.
He said Dhyaneswaran had stopped coming to the gym after a few days. “When we asked about him, Pradeepsingh said he had gone to his hometown and would return soon.”
Pradeepsingh, Prabhu said, had renewed his membership in January this year. “We had collected his photograph and mobile number. We were in a state of shock when the media unravelled the real identity of Pradeepsingh, who Dhyaneswaran told us hailed from northern parts of India. We have handed over the documents to police.”
Meanwhile, Amani Dhanji, 27, of Colombo, who was arrested for hiding the identity of Lokka, was lodged in the Puzhal Central Prison in Chennai on Friday morning.
Dhanji had been staying with Lokka since February 2020. It was Dhanji who took him to a private hospital, where doctors declared Lokka brought dead on July 3.
Dhanji was two months pregnant when she was picked up by the city police on Sunday. She suffered an abortion while being taken to a magistrate. She was subsequently admitted to the Coimbatore Medical College and Hospital. She was discharged on Thursday afternoon and taken directly to the Puzhal Central Prison.