Friday, 06 June 2025
Wagista to CID today over Lasantha murder

Wagista to CID today over Lasantha murder Featured

The then TID chief, now retired DIG C.N. Wagista, has been summoned by the CID today (07) to obtain a statement from him with regard to his conspiring to conceal evidence and to get killers of ‘The Sunday Leader’ editor Lasantha Wickramatunga acquitted and discharged, reports say.

The OIC of the TID at the time, the presently Tangalle ASP, has already been summoned twice by the CID over the murder.

If a suspect is acquitted and discharged by a court, that suspect cannot be summoned again, but investigations can be relaunched on the basis of newly-acquired evidence.

The CID has now been able to gather strong evidence with regard to the Wickramatunga murder, and all suspects freed by courts have been summoned to the Fourth Floor.

 

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