Rishad’s brother had direct links with an Easter Sunday bomber – Police
Investigations have revealed that Riyadh Bathiudeen – brother of former Minister Rishad Bathiudeen–has had direct links with an Easter Sunday suicide bomber.
Police Media Spokesman SP Jaliya Senaratne revealed this at a special press conference held at the Department of Government Information today (15).
On a day close to April 21, Riyadh Bathiudeen had met with one of the suicide bombers at a reputed hotel, said the Police Spokesman.
The suspects arrested yesterday (14) had borne titles at various welfare societies and organizations alongside the suicide bombers. It has been revealed that some suicide bombers had donated land and invested money into these organizations.
“This is a very complex investigation. The investigation is being carried out through various aspects and links. Many teams are investigating along the different aspects of the investigation”, said Senaratne.
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has arrested 119 individuals over the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks while the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) has arrested 78 suspects.
Senaratne said that 40 suspects at the CID and 52 suspects at the TID are being interrogated under detention orders.
Further, 33 suspects are currently under remand custody, the spokesman added.
(Source: Ada Derana)
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Time to use Death Penalty on those guilty of terrorism or supporting terrorism! The harshest message must be conveyed to the next terra mfs waiting in line.
Will he be also admitted to hospital and then from there he goes back home
So, cannot imagine it took a year for our super sleuths in the CID to identify this link!
This is a political move to win the Cardinal’s flock’s vote to Pohottu in the Parliamentary elections.
The accused will spend a couple of days or weeks in the luxury Prison Hospital and then be released on bail, the case being forgotten or postponed forever..
May be you are simply ignorant, willfully/conveniently-forgetful, or just mentally retarded (or all 3 in one formula to varying degrees in you), but you forget that the “super sleuths in the CID” (as you termed) were in the pocket of Ponil+Yahapalanaya Marusira setup from 2015 to Dec 2019, where their main job (as assigned by Ponil+Yahapalanayas) was to go on a vindictive witch-hunt against the former UPFA “Rajapakse” Govt honchos, i.e. looking under every stone for evidence to jail them (aka “political victimization” at its excellence!).
As well, at the behest of the vile Tamil separatists (the kind to which you belong) to whom the Yahapalanayas had cozyed up to rake in “Tamil votes,” Yahapalanayas had also instructed the CID to go on another witch-hunt and arrest (and assure prosecution) of our war heroes, yes the very war heroes who, against insurmountable odds, had decisively dealt a death-blow to the horrific LTTE terrorists who had killed and maimed us Sri Lankans by the tens of thousands over the previous 30 years!
[That these same UNP politikaakkas who were now in the thick of the that Yahapalanaya regime had earlier allowed the LTTE to flourish was no secret to anyone; once again, the fact that “Tamil votes” were more important to them than National Security was also no secret from what we saw happening in the UNO, i.e. multiple motions adopted against SL, from 2015 to 2019]