By Chandrapradeep
(Lanka-e-News - 20.Dec.2020, 11.30PM) On the 9th of December Gampaha high court judge Nimal Ranaweera rejected the bail application filed by the former director of CID Shani Abeysekara who was remaded unjustly, and the sub inspector Sugath Mendis who refused to give false evidence against Shani and uphelded their remand custody. The legal community is amazed and the law abiding community is angry over Nimal Ranaweera s decision which completely disregard the existing law in Sri Lanka.
Nimal Ranaweera said that the verdict would be given on the 7th but the verdict was given on the 9th as he took a leave on the 7th. Meanwhile, on the 7th the Attorney General had submitted a medical report on Shani Abeysekera to the plaintiff Ranaweera. It said nothing else but Shani was currently infected from Kovid-19 and he had suffered a heart attack in the meantime. According to the medical report, Shani Abeysekera has been receiving clinical treatment as a heart patient for a
Witch-Hunt Against CID Sleuths: Lasantha’s Daughter Seeks Intervention Of Witness Protection Authority
The daughter of slain Sunday Leader Editor Lasantha Wickrematunge has urgently appealed to the National Authority for the Protection of Victims and Witnesses of Crimes in Sri Lanka to inquire into attempts to pervert the course of justice in investigations involving former CID Director Abeysekara and Sub-Inspector Mendis by officers of the Colombo Crimes Division (CCD).
In a letter to the Director of the Victims of Crime and Witnesses Assistance and Protection Division, set up under the guidance of the National Authority, 28-year-old Ahimsa Wickrematunge said the case against Sub Inspector Mendis who was previously attached to the CID was made up of belated, mutually inconsistent, self-contradictory statements about a murder investigation he conducted six years ago.