The source said KP is held in the Panagoda army camp in the outskirts of Colombo.

Uncooperative KP was severely tortured by the Sri Lanka Terrorist Investigation Division (TID) for maintaining silence. At one point, KP has fainted and breathless and the army paramedics had to be called in to revive him.

The source in the Defence Ministry reflected annoyance that TID officials are exerting excessive violence on KP. Since the medical treatment, KP is said to be facing subtle touring like slapping, arm twisting, ear pulling and finger knuckling in the process of their investigations.

The Defence Ministry source further confirmed that Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapakse`s publicised meeting with KP only lasted for few minutes, as KP was maintaining determined silence in the meeting. Gotabaya had left the place after making abusive comment in Sinhala language.

It is suspected Sri Lanka is preventing access to Indian Intelligence sleuths to interview KP, fearing that he will take the opportunity to reveal the treatment meted out to him by the TID men. According to news reports, Indian officials are keen to interview KP to find out further about the assassination of the former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi by the LTTE. Instead, Sri Lanka has gone out of the way to get the Pakistani intelligence to implicate him in the Karachi terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team.

KP was abducted at the Tune Hotel in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia in early July 2009 by the Malaysian intelligence on a tip off and handed over to the TID in Colombo.

According to sources close to KP, he is suffering from acute diabetic condition and heart disorder. He is not provided legal assistance or access to the relevant UN agencies and the government is said to be heavily relying on its antiterrorism law to investigate and hold him without due process.