DIG Lalith Jayasinghe pressurizes AG’s Dept.!
Jul 09, 2016
Batticaloa senior DIG Lalith Jayasinghe is exerting pressure on the Attorney General’s Department through politicians and other persons to avoid his being arrested in connection with charges of giving police protection to murderers, concealing evidence of a crime and aiding the murderers to flee, in relation to the rape and murder of schoolgirl Vidya Sivaloganathan of Pungudutivu, Jaffna last year, say sources in the department.
Those pressurizing the AG’s Department on behalf of Jayasinghe have told its officials that continued arrests of police officers would cause a breach of their trust in the government and that the entire police service could collapse as a result, and that such matters should be resovled through an internal inquiry.
Responding, the AG’s Department officials have said that it was not the AG’s task to advice the Police Department to hold disciplinary inquiries. Also, the corrupt should be punished under any difficult circumstances, in order to reverse the law of the jungle and to ensure justice, they have added.
The other person due to be questioned with regard to the above matter is Colombo University’s dean of law Prof. Thamil Maran. He says these allegations are part of a conspiracy by the TNA to prevent his entry to politics.
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