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Sex and abduction scandal: Police hunt for WPC politico
Police are hunting for a prominent UNP Western Provincial Council member who handsomely won the recent elections for allegedly having abducted a businessman after the family accused him of sexually abusing their under-aged daughter.

Police said the politician had carried out the alleged abduction after the family went to the National Child Protection Authority to lodge a complaint about the sexual abuse of their daughter. Police said that according to a complaint, the businessman was allegedly abducted from his office in Bambalapitiya on Friday around noon by the politician and a gang of seven armed men who demanded that his 16-year-old daughter be handed over to the Provincial Councillor. It is alleged that the abductors came in a Prado Jeep and a white car.

The businessman had allegedly been abducted along with one of his employees and taken to Malabe where the abductors demanded that the daughter be handed over, police said. The businessman was then brought back to his office around 4 p.m. and told to call his youngest daughter and ask her to come to the premises. The employee was allegedly beaten and let off near Borella.

It is alleged that the angry businessman had then tried to the businessman, his wife, and the elder daughter but they escaped and rand down Duplication Road, stopped a passing car and got to the Havelock Road Police Field Forces Headquarters and later to the Bambalapitiya station where they made a complaint around 8.30 p.m.

Police said the businessman was now in hiding along with his family and he had not asked for protection. They said there was evidence that the politician was previously involved even with the elder daughter and had allegedly abused the younger girl sexually from the time she was about 14.

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