The President gave this instruction to the Inspector General of Police Mr. N. K. Illangakoon, after seeing a report titled “What happened to Police Sergeant after the verbal statement on treasure hunting – President uncle, please find our father”, published in a Sunday national newspaper last week quoting the child of the missing person.

The newspaper report said Sergeant Gunathillaka has been missing since  August 07.

President Sirisena instructed the Inspector General of Police to conduct a special investigation immediately and submit a report.  Accordingly, Special Investigation Unit of the Police has started investigations on this disappearance.