AG directs IGP to probe SLPP attacks on protesters; CID to investigate

Inspector General of Police (IGP) Chandana Wickramaratne has ordered the Senior Deputy Inspector General (SDIG) in charge of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to conduct an investigation into how Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) supporters were allowed to attack peaceful protesters outside Temple Trees and Galle Face. 

The IGP has also instructed the CID to immediately commence the probe and take legal action against those responsible. 

Meanwhile, Attorney General Sanjaya Rajaratnam has written to the IGP instructing him to immediately launch a fully fledged investigation into the yesterday's incidents where a group physically assaulted citizens who were exercising their right to peaceful protest guaranteed under the Constitution. 

In a letter to the IGP, the AG instructs him to launch fully fledged investigations into the unalwful interference into peoples' constitutional rights; the circumstances that led to them; and, the consequent commission of penal offences in the process. "As the incidents in the metropolitan Colombo have triggered sporadic acts of violence of serious nature involving people and their property all over the country, I advise you further to investigate the aftermath of the incidents of 9th May, 2022," the letter adds.