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An incident where a schoolgirl died after being knocked down by a train in Ambalangoda area last July was reported. Subsequently the young man supposed to be her lover had committed suicide by jumping into a well, it was reported. An elder brother of hers as understood was inside the train and he came in between this

Nimesha this schoolgirl was to sit for the Ordinary Level Examination this year had carried on this affair unknown to her parents or anyone for that matter. A number of suspicions and doubts had sprung up over this romance had busted in this manner and when police investigations were underway, these two deaths were found to have taken place in different characteristics. 

Deceased Nimesha's brother Tilak had initially told police this after the said incident: "I was coming in the train from Kandy. When coming like that in the train I saw a boy assaulting my sister a little away from the station. As soon as the train stopped I got down and when going towards that spot that boy pushed my sister towards the train which was coming in the opposite direction".

This is what the train driver said about the incident: "As usual because every day children going for classes at that time are found going around that place on the rail track, normally as a custom I drive the train somewhat slowly. When we were moving forward my co-driver showed me a boy with another boy holding a girl by the hand and how they came forward by the edge of the railway track. We said 'that it's their problem no'. And we didn't go to think about it much. Even before a minute passed we saw that girl running towards our train from the side of the road. What we thought was that that girl was running to get into our train. So thinking I slowed down the train. When slowing down the train by co-driver said 'it looks like there's no point now'. We stopped the train. Even by that time that child's life had been lost".

There was a variance between what Nimesha's brother said and what the driver said. Therefore the police once again interrogated Tilak. But then he changed his statement. "Because I saw my sister speaking to a boy when I was coming in the train I got down at the station and kept walking towards where she was. At that point after seeing me my sister darted. When running like that she got run over by the train. It was because of fear that I first said that the boy who was with my sister pushed her to the train". 

Two days after this incident Sankalpa the supposed boy friend of of Nimesha was found dead inside an abandoned well near his house having jumped inside the well. His pair of slippers had been was found near the well and his dead body had been preyed upon by monitors. Upto that moment his home people had been searching for him for 2 days, it was reported. As such investigation reports were received to say that his death had taken place on the same day that Nimesha was run over by the train. 

The police took some time to find the link between the deaths of both of them. When pursuing information across Sankalpa's telephone reports during the past he had left the place where the accident took place and had come back once more to the well referred to earlier, it was reported. Nimesha's brother Tilak who was responsible for a contradictory statement too had been to the said locations and had once again visited the place where Sankalpa was found dead. Under these circumstances Tilak was taken into custody and continuously questioned. On that occasion he had vomited out the frightening story of how he killed Sankalpa and put him into the well. 

Tilak revealed that on the day of the incident he had admitted that he was coming in the train and had seen his sister holding hands with a boy and walking a little away from the railway station and had lost his temper on seeing his sister carrying on an affair with another on the sly and had rushed to the spot where his sister was with the motive of punishing both of them. Nimesha who was brought up at home in a conservative manner had shown a terrible fear for her brothers, it had been reported and had all of a sudden beat a retreat for the fear that the act of being in the company of her lover would catch the attention of her brother. At that very moment a train too had been moving and unanticipatedly she had jumped in front of the train. As a result she had died on the spot. Sankalpa too who was caught in the act by Tilak had brushed aside Tilak's hand and run away from the place. 

Subsequently Sankalpa had gone to Ambalangoda Bus halt and had boarded the Batapola bus with the idea of going home. It was during that time that while the sister's dead body was lying at that spot that Tilak had been combing the bus halt with another friend in search of the boy who was instrumental in his sister's death. In the end he had noticed Sankalpa inside the Batapola bus and then Tilak had got into that bus in the company of his friend. But he had made no commotion as such in public. 

Later, when Batapola was drawing nigh, Tilak who had approached Sankalpa had forced him to get down. Sankalpa who had got scared had got down from the bus and having been caught in the grasp of Tilak and the friend had gone in a three-wheeler to a jungle environment. It was after that they had been walking along a lonely road. Tilak who asked Sankalpa to stop near an abandoned well had then made him drown by saying "It was because of you yakko that my sister died ... I'll send you also to that world!" Subsequently Tilak had proceeded to Ambalangoda as if nothing had happened. He had even attended the final rites of his deceased sister and when his sister's lover's corpse was located 2 days later, he had expressed the opinion to those around and the police that Sankalpa would have committed suicide. Whatever it is, Meetiyagoda Police were smart enough to find out the whole story about this horrendous incident after 2 months. Tilak who pleaded guilty to the crime of murdering Sankalpa is presently under police custody.