Tuesday, 22 April 2025
Mangala takes Mahinda to CID over coup attempt

Mangala takes Mahinda to CID over coup attempt Featured

Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera is poised to make an official complaint with the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) over a plot by topped President Mahinda Rajapaksa to disregard the democratic election process and retain power through a coup in the early hours of January 9, the day election results not in favour of him were pouring in.

Samaraweera is scheduled to make the compliant with the CID at around 3pm this afternoon along with the president of the Lawyers' Association Upul Jayasuriya.

Although it may not be possible to file charges against an Executive President, the compliant to the CID will be made against a candidate for the Presidency in this case Mahinda Rajapaksa.

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