Embilipitiya Prasanna's killing AG directs CID probe DIG's report concealed

2016-01-24 

DIG's report concealed

Police Spokesman ASP Ruwan Gunasekera confirmed to Ceylon Today last night that IGP Illangakoon had handed over the Embilipitiya investigation to Senior DIG R. Seneviratne. He however said there had been no prior deadline set for this.
The CID has dispatched a probe team to Embilipitiya following the Attorney General's directive to the IGP, sources said.
Earlier, Sabaragamuwa Province DIG C.D. Wickremaratne was ordered to conduct an impartial inquiry into the Embilipitiya incidents but his report has been swept under the carpet.

However, ASP Gunasekera said that the Sabaragamuwa DIG had only furnished an interim report, adding that action could not be taken on the basis of an interim report. He said the Magisterial Inquiry would be conducted by the Embilipitiya Magistrate's Court and that would determine the real cause of Prasanna's death.
One version has it that Prasanna fell off a balcony of a house in a clash between Police and occupants of, and visitors, to the house and succumbed to his injuries on 4 January. The case was first heard before Embilipitiya Additional Magistrate Prasanna Fernando on 13 January.
Eight civilians who were charged with attacking the Police were produced before the Embilipitiya Magistrate on Monday, 11 January.