Death of Sri Lankan underworld don in Coimbatore: RAW officials collect details from CB-CID

COIMBATORE: A team of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) conducted a meeting with Crime Branch- CID IG K Shankar at the office of the

CB-CID

in Coimbatore on Wednesday in connection with the death of

Sri Lankan underworld don

Angoda Lokka.

Lokka was involved in series of eight murders in Sri Lanka and he was a most wanted person. Interpol also issued a red notice to across the globe to arrest him. CB-CID's seven special teams have been conducting investigation on various angles. The case has international links.

Five RAW officials held a meeting with Shankar and other officials and collected documents from the CB-CID.


Lokka, 35, died of a cardiac arrest at a house in Cheran Maa Nagar in Coimbatore on July 3 night. He was residing in the name of Pradeep Singh and a Colombo-based woman Amani Dhanji, 27, had stayed with him since February 2020.

Madurai-based lawyer Sivakami Sundari took the dead body to Madurai where it was cremated. Sources said Sundari has seven bank accounts and nearly Rs 50 lakh to Rs 1 core transactions were made with these accounts.

Coimbatore city police arrested Amani Dhanji, the lawyer Sivakami Sundari and her friend Dhayaneswaran on Sunday.

On Thursday, a team of the CB-CID along with forensic science experts reached the forensic science office in Chennai with the viscera samples of Lokka.