29 April 2021 12:05 am Views - 228
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) requested the Executive Director of the Centre for Society and Religion (CSR) in Colombo 10 to provide information on the confidential report into the Easter Sunday attack that was handed over to a group of Catholic clergy on April 26 by Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MPs.
Police Spokesman DIG Ajith Rohana said a news item is in circulation in social, print and electronic media about the confidential report about the perpetrators of the Easter Sunday carnage.
According to the article, a report had been handed over to the Catholic priests by a group of MPs of the SJB on April 26, 2021. It was reported that the report was to be handed over at the CSR. However, the meeting held at another Church in Colombo after Police had informed them that such a meeting could not be allowed due to the Covid-19 threat.
SJB MP Manusha Nanayakkara handed the report to the Catholic clergy, while MPs Lakshman Kiriella, Patali Champika Ranawaka, Eran Wickramaratne, Nalin Bandara and Dr. Harsha de Silva were also reportedly present at the event.
The Police Spokesman said the CID and the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) are currently conducting investigation into the Easter Sunday mayhem.
“If there are valuable evidence in the report or salient points about the perpetrators, those information would be required to conduct further investigation,” he said.
Accordingly, the Director of CID has made this request to the Executive Director of the CSR to provide information of the confidential report to the CID for further investigation,
he said.