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Samaarasingha Arachchige Madush Lakshitha alias Makandure Madush (February 24, 1979 - October 20, 2020) was an underworld leader and a drug kingpin, who led organized crime and drug trafficking in Sri Lanka. Madush's criminal record stretched back to 2005. He was alleged on murder of Southern Development Authority Chairman Danny Hittetiyage in 2006. He escaped to Dubai and managed to operate his network from there, until he was arrested in Dubai on February 04, 2019.

Early life
Madush's parents moved to Gatara, Mathapanawatte, Kamburupitiya after marriage. That is where Madhush was born. His birth name was Samarasinghe Arachchilage Madhush Lakshita. He was born on November 24, 1979. Madhush received his primary education from a village school. Madush lived with his parents and only brother. He lost his mother when he was about eight years old. Madhush's mother, who was a strong member of a political organization which was strictly banned in the Southern Province at that time in 1988-89, was shot dead on her way to a meeting, leaving her two children permanently deprived of their mother's affection. After that, Madush's father had entrusted the two children to their mother's sister and remarried.

Madush's aunt, who was the foster mother of the two orphans, raised the two children afterwards. Madhush had learnt up to GCE Ordinary Levels and leave education to support his foster mother's life struggle with the intention of doing some wood work and earning a living. Madush first finds a job in a village shed. By the time he started his own wood milling business and gradually grew it up.

Along with the business, Madush had many friends. Although they had many friends, Madhush was mostly associated with members of a bus extortion gang. At the end of these friendly companies, Madhush also became a strongman in a bus extortion gang and, began to deal with weapons.

=Criminal Career= Madush escaped from the village for fear of death, after a quarrel with Danny Hittetiyage, a strongman of the Communist Party of Sri Lanka. After escaping from the village had no money left to live on. He started to live a life of theft and robbery. It was not until 2005 that he first realized that he had entered the underworld. He was arrested on June 23 of that year in Wariyapola with two firearms. At that time he was accused of stealing from three leasing companies in Negombo and Galle.

=Death=

Madhush had once fled the country and lived in Dubai for many years. He was deported to Sri Lanka in 2019 after being arrested by Dubai Police over a drug offense. Madush was under the custody of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) for a year and a half, and was transferred to the custody of the Colombo Crime Division (CCD) only four days prior to his death, October 16, 2020

Madush was accompanied by the CCD in an operation to find 22 kg of drugs hidden in an apartment complex in Maligawatta on October 20, 2020 and members of the underworld have opened fire at them as they approached. In retaliation, Police have also opened fire, during which Madush was shot dead, according to Police Report. A Police officer too had been shot and injured.