Police investigations against Army members have created a big problem, de Silva noted, and asked that they be not named suspects in those killings.

However, the AG has defended the CID investigations and said the Army would have to answer for the allegations of concealing evidence as well.

The president, prime minister and the international community were paying special attention to these investigations, he went on, noting the upcoming Geneva human rights sessions would raise the matter, all of which require the department to carry out the probes to the book efficiently.

The most immediate reason that made the Army chief to meet with the AG was that the CID has now been able to identify all those behind the killing of journalist Lasantha Wickramatunga.

Three teams had been deployed for his murder, led by Maj. Ansar of Army intelligence, it has been found out.

The Army continues to refrain from handing over the Army’s daily operations book requested by the CID for the investigation.

The then Army chief, Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka too, is to be questioned over the journalist’s murder.

Courts have permitted an inspection of the whereabouts of his bodyguards during the period of the killing.

The CID is to also to obtain a court order to question incumbent Army intelligence chief Suresh Salley, although he had been in Europe on an anti-LTTE operation during the incident, and returned only in March 2009.

The Army commander has also given a phone call and inquired from IGP Pujith Jayasundara about the investigations, and asked him not to obtain court orders against his men.

The police chief said they were duty bound to follow the AG’s orders, and stressed that the he would suffer the same fate that befell retired DIG Anura Senanayake if he covered up crime investigations.