CID records statement from Rishad Bathiudeen for nearly 4 hours
Posted by ONLANKA Newsroom on April 16, 2020 - 2:20 pm

Former Minister Rishad Bathiudeen has left the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) after giving a statement for nearly 4 hours.
The statement is with regard to a land issue in Mannar.
The CID had recorded a statement from him on April 14 over the same incident.
Earlier, former Minister Rishad Bathiudeen’s brother Rifkan Bathiudeen was arrested and remanded over allegedly selling a land in Mannar to a private company under a false deed.
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