By Shamindra Ferdinando
Two of the most senior DIGs in the police are expected to send in their retirement papers over the appointment of Senior DIG Lucky Kodituwakku to succeed IGP W.B. Rajaguru who retires on August 31, high ranking police sources said.

``They got their papers signed by the outgoing IGP on Friday and are expected to submit them to the Defence Secretary on Monday,'' a senior police source said yesterday.

The two Senior DIGs concerned are Messrs. Kingsley Wickramasuriya (Intelligence and VIP Security) and Gamini Gunwardene (Crimes and Criminal Intelligence). Well informed sources said that these two DIGs and three others are senior to the new IGP.

Gunawardene made a good-bye speech at a police headquarters function in Rajaguru's honour on Friday.

All players in this drama, the new IGP and the two retiring DIGs, are retired officers who were recalled to service after the PA government assumed office. Outgoing IGP Rajaguru was also recalled to service.

Senior DIG Dharmadasa Silva, who is now in Sierra Leone assisting the police there on a re-oganisation plan, is also expected to retire on his return, police sources said. Silva too was recalled to service after the present administration assumed office.

Meanwhile the National Intelligence Bureau denied allegation that it had tapped President Kumaratunga's telephone. The Ravaya newspaper yesterday broke a sensational story saying that the NIB had tapped the president's phone.

``There is no truth in these allegations,'' former IGP Cyril Herath who now heads the NIB in addition to his duties as Chairman of the National Savings Bank, and DIG T.V. Sumanasekera, the agency's Additional Director General, said.