Navindu Ratnayake, the driver of the Defender involved in the hit and run that killed Ananda Sagara Sarathchandra, the Traffic OIC of the Borella police station, has been granted bail. 

Ratnayake is the son of SP Prasanna Ratnayake, a senior officer attached to the President's Security Division. 

The son of the senior Police officer spent nearly a month in remand over the accident which killed the Traffic OIC of the Borella police station.

The Police officer, who was seriously injured due to the accident, later succumbed to his injuries. 

Several others including Ranishka Aluthgamage (the son of UPFA MP Mahindananda Aluthgamage) and Duminda Attygalle, a UNP Colombo Municipal Councillor, were arrested and later released on bail.