This house was traced to Vystwyke Road, Mutwal. Police however refused to divulge the telephone number in question. Seelan committed suicide by biting a cyanide capsule at the scene of the Mt Lavinia bomb-blast. Police further said that Mahadevan upon interrogation had admitted that he had received a total of five telephone calls from the LTTE, including the call in question made by Seelan on March 11, five days before the abortive assassination attempt. Police after checking records verified that such a call had indeed been made to Mahadevan from the communication centre which Seelan ran as a cover at Wattala.
Police suspect that the word 'rice' is a coded message of the terrorists.
Mahadevan had however failed to identify the March 11 caller as Seelan. They however said that this type of modus operandi was well in keeping with the Tigers method of anonymity. In 1996, the suspect had approached the LTTE and had requested that he and his family be given passes to leave the Wanni. But the suspect had told the police that after coming to the south, he had not acceded to any of the requests for assistance made by the LTTE, including the five calls made to his home at Mutwal, requesting for such help. However, the fact that the LTTE knew his telephone number at Mutwal makes it difficult for the police to believe Mahadevan's story.