Lanka in talks with India to extradite prison needed in assassination bid on former Prez: Minister Sarath Weerasekera

Sri Lanka’s Public Order Minister Sarath Weerasekera on Monday stated negotiations have been on with Indian officers to extradite a needed prison who has alleged hyperlinks with the assassination bid on former president Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga in 1999.
Weerasekera stated Indian officers earlier within the month had knowledgeable their Lankan counterparts that ‘Kimbula Alay Guna’ — recognized solely by his alias — was arrested in Chennai by the Tamil Nadu Q department Police.
The minister stated talks have been ongoing to extradite ‘Guna’ from India.

Other than the failed assassination try, ‘Guna’ is suspected to have hyperlinks with drug trafficking and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
On December 18, 1999, former president Chandrika Kumaratunga, the one feminine president so far, sustained severe accidents when a lady suicide bomber attacked her convoy throughout an election rally in Colombo.
The Tamil Tigers have been blamed for the assault, by which 34 individuals had died and scores injured.

‘Guna’ is suspected to have escaped to India after the assault.
Weerasekera stated the federal government was in search of the arrest of over 100 criminals from abroad utilizing Interpol Red Alert notices.