The Attorney General’s (AG) Department will provide guidelines to the Police on carrying out investigations keeping with legal requirements.
The decision was made at a discussion presided over by AG Sanjaya Rajaratnam and Public Security Minister Tiran Alles and attended by senior police officers.
In order to have better coordination between the AG’s Department and Police Additional Solicitor General Ms. Haripriya Jayasundara has been appointed to coordinate with Criminal Investigations Department (CID) and Terrorism Investigations Department (TID) while Senior Deputy Solicitor General Dileepa Peiris to coordinate with other Police stations.
The objective of the exercise would also be to prevent police personnel unnecessarily facing Fundamental Rights cases.
Public Security Minister Ananda Wijepala told Parliament today that the suspect in the rape of a lady doctor at the Anuradhapura teaching hospital has been identified as an army deserter and he will be apprehended shortly.
Police have arrested the suspect connected to the sexual assault on a female doctor at the Anuradhapura Teaching Hospital today morning in Galnewa.
The Dutch Public Prosecutor suspects two companies of paying bribes in the construction of hospitals in Sri Lanka, according to an investigation by FD, the Dutch financial newspaper.
The Government today tabled in the House the Report of the Commission to Inquiry into the Establishment and Maintenance of Unlawful Places of Detention and Torture Chambers in the Batalanda Housing Scheme.
Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe said today he wholly rejects the Batalanda Commission report and that it was appointed wholly with the intention slinging political mud at him.
Leader of the National People’s Party (NPP) and one time Propaganda Secretary of the JVP Wimal Weerawansa accused the Government of bringing back the “Batalanda Commission” for a media spectacle instead of a genuine concern for those who suffered during the 1988-1990 period.
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