Sri Lankan gangster was poisoned, suspect cops

COIMBATORE: Sri Lankan underworld don Angoda Lokka, who died of cardiac arrest at a rented house on Cheran Maa Nagar in the city on July 3, could have been poisoned to death, police sources said on Saturday.
Postmortem carried out at the Coimbatore Medical College and Hospital on July 5 revealed bluish discoloration of finger and toenails, sources said. No external or internal injuries were found.
Meanwhile, the crime branch-CID police are trying to confirm the identity of Lokka through fingerprint comparison.
Sources said that Lokka once used a Sri Lankan passport that identified him as Ilawalage Sandun. He escaped to Tamil Nadu on an illegal ferry. When he attempted to return to Sri Lanka using the fake passport, he was arrested by the Chennai city police on June 9, 2017. Police had collected his fingerprints then.
“Fingerprint experts visited Lokka’s rented house on Balaji Nagar at Cheran Maa Nagar and lifted more than 10 fingerprints. A team is working-round-the clock to establish his identity. If the prints match, we can confirm the death of Lokka,” said a police officer.
Meanwhile, the CB-CID police filed a petition before the chief judicial magistrate (CJM) court to take Lokka’s associates Amani Dhanji, 27, of Colombo, Madurai-based lawyer Sivakami Sundari and her friend Dhayaneswaran under custody for five days. The petition is likely to come up for hearing on Wednesday.