Media ordered to hand over riot visuals to CID

12 November 2012 01:36 pm Views - 4535

Print and electronic media organisations were today ordered to hand over to the CID the unedited copies of the visuals of Friday’s Welikada Prison riots.

Colombo Additional Magistrate Praharsha Ranasinghe made this order sequent to an application made by the Borella Police.

Meanwhile six suspects who are alleged to have escaped during the riot were produced in court and remanded till November 21. The Magistrate fixed the inquiry for November 28. (TFT)