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Investigations ongoing; CID Report after consulting AG: IGP to PM
Investigations into the Welikade Prison riots where 27 inmates were killed, five years back, are in progress and further reports will be filed by the Criminal Investigations Dept (CID) following consultations with the Attorney General (AG), the Inspector General of Police Pujith Jayasundara informed the Prime Minister’s office.
The Report has been filed in response to a query regarding the progress of the investigations into the Welikade Prison incident. The Report stated that statements have been recorded of prison inmates who claimed that some of their colleagues who were called by name and taken away, were later found to have been killed. The statements were recorded on the advice of the AG’s Dept, following a report by a three-member committee which investigated the Prison riots. Fifteen of the suspects were identified and their statements recorded.
The Report further stated that statements of Armed Forces personnel involved in the operation have also been recorded. The Prison riot broke out after a search carried out in the Welikade Prisons, and the Army was called in to control the situation.