By Leon Berenger
It all began at a Cancer clinic in the central hill capital of Kandy on October 18.
A woman had traveled from Dambulla and gone to this clinic seeking treatment, but failed to return home.
Her anxious husband and other relatives mounted a massive search for her and the police were alerted island wide.
After 15 days she returned to her native home at Dambula and this is what she had to say.
She claimed that while at the clinic in Kandy she was approached by two men who said they were doctors from South India and offered her medical assistance free of charge in that country.
She went on to say that later she was taken by a van to an undisclosed location, and kept virtual prisoner along with four other women.
She said that there was a group of persons dressed in surgeons garb and soon she was to find out that they intended to operate on her in this clandestine clinic and remove vital organs that could be sold for a huge price in India.
Later the woman claimed that she finally was able to escape from a ventilator with the help of a sympathetic employer of the clinic.
"I later boarded a night train from a station I cannot recall and found my self at Colombo Fort. Later I begged a friendly couple to give me Rs. 500 and with this money I traveled back to Dambula", and the story ended there.
Her claims which were given wide publicity in the local and foreign media had several specially trained police officers to investigate.
After two months of painstaking investigations, this is what the police found out and made available to the media yesterday.
"The real story is that instead of visiting the clinic the woman had traveled with a lover to the sacred city of Polonaruwa and booked into a local motel.
Late that same night the couple had decided to leave the hotel and head for Dambulla when they were picked up by a police mobile patrol and could not explain their purpose of presence in the area.
There after they were taken to the police station and subsequently produced in court and charged for loitering under the Vagrance Ordinance and remanded for 14 days", Police Superintendent (SP) Ajith Rohana told the Sunday Times
"There were no South Indian doctors or clandestine clinics. It was her fabricated story to explain her whereabouts for the 14 days she spent in remand prison",
"But in the meantime much of public money and police time was spent on a dead trail and it also affected the image of the country. These so-called organ grabs are only known in other Asian and African third world countries. Sri Lanka has never fallen in to that frame. That is the reason we were adamant to get to the bottom of the whole thing", he said.
So at the end of the day the con woman was re-arrested, produced in court and sentenced to six months rigorous imprisonment suspended for�25 years��making for a false complaint to police.
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