Sri Lankan Govt. orders reinvestigation of several high-profile cases
COLOMBO – Sri Lanka’s newly elected government has initiated a reinvestigation into several high-profile unresolved cases, including the 2019 Easter Sunday attacks and the kidnapping and murder of journalist Dharmeratnam Sivaram in 2005.
The ruling National People’s Power (NPP), which won the presidential election last month, pledged to reinvestigate past cases which had not been resolved.
The Ministry of Public Security took action to identify any lapses in investigations.
The ministry has asked the acting police chief that these cases should be reinvestigated,” Police spokesman Nihal Thalduwa said on Saturday (12).
The cases to be reinvestigated include the alleged scam in the issue of Central Bank bonds in 2015 blamed on the then government of Ranil Wickremesinghe, the former president, and the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks that killed over 270 people, including nearly 50 foreign nationals.
The Catholic Church has been demanding stringent action on what they alleged was a politically motivated cover-up by previous governments on the attacks.
Among the other cases that are to be investigated, according to the Police Media Spokesperson, are the disappearance of Lalith Kumar and Kugan Muruganandan in 2011, the disappearance of Vice Chancellor Sivasubramaniam Raveendranath in 2006, the alleged suicide of Dinesh Schaffter in 2022 and the shooting incident outside the W15 hotel in Weligama in 2023.
-ENCL/PTI
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