News channels said the taciturn man in his thirties was Maddumage Lasantha Chandana Perera alias Angoda Lokka, an underworld operative from Sri Lanka. From Sri Lanka to IndiaThough his was an unfamiliar name in India, in Sri Lanka, Angoda Lokka’s name popped up in the media every now and then over the last few years. Whenever the police arrested suspects in connection with narcotics smuggling cases, news reports would refer to some arrested men as associates of “underworld gangster Angoda Lokka”. The Sri Lankan police believe Lokka fled the country days after the incident and considered him to be “absconding” since. Also read | Digital devices of Sri Lankan gangster missing, say policeMeanwhile, the Sri Lankan police has sent photographs and fingerprints to the Indian authorities.

Source: The Hindu August 14, 2020 19:26 UTC