Sri Lankan gangster Angoda Lokka, aide planned to leave India: CB-CID

Sri Lankan gangster Maddumage Lasantha Chandana Perera alias Angoda Lokka, who died while hiding in Coimbatore in July 2020, planned to get a passport using forged documents to leave India, the invest

Sri Lankan gangster Maddumage Lasantha Chandana Perera alias Angoda Lokka, who died while hiding in Coimbatore in July 2020, planned to get a passport using forged documents to leave India, the investigation by the Crime Branch CID (CB-CID) has found.

The CB-CID suspects that Lokka, who lived in Coimbatore as Pradeep Singh, wanted to leave for Dubai. His close aide Chanuka Thananayaka, whom the CB-CID arrested from Bengaluru on November 13, also planned to leave India, said sources privy to the investigation.

However, the CB-CID is yet to confirm whether Lokka engaged in illegal activities while hiding along with Sri Lankan woman Amani Thanji near Cheran Ma Nagar in Coimbatore, until his death on July 3, 2020.