Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka)

Questionin­g of intelligen­ce officers ‘in camera’ in future

- BY SUJITH HEWAJULIGE

The Parliament­ary Special Committee (PSC) that probes the Easter Sunday attack has decided to conduct inquiries from intelligen­ce officers in camera in future.

■STATE INTELLIGEN­CE SERVICE (SIS) SENIOR DIG NILANTHA JAYEWARDEN­E TO BE QUIZZED ‘IN CAMERA’ ■NO MEDIA WILL BE ALLOWED TO REPORT SAME OR OBTAIN ANY PHOTOGRAPH OF SUCH OFFICERS

A member of the committee said that accordingl­y, inquiries from the Chief of the State Intelligen­ce Service (SIS) Senior DIG Nilantha Jayewarden­e would be conducted in camera when he appears before the PSC on July 24.

The committee member further said that a programme has been prepared to obtain evidence from intelligen­ce officers and no media would be allowed to report same or obtain any photograph of such officers. Various allegation­s were leveled against the summoning of intelligen­ce officers before the PSC in the recent past. Some people expressed their opinion that the obtaining of informatio­n from intelligen­ce officers in public has posed a threat to national security.

In addition to the State Intelligen­ce Officers, Senior

DIG of Criminal Investigat­ions Department (CID), Ravi Seneviratn­e, CID Director Senior SP Shani Abeysekera, the Director of the Police Terrorist Investigat­ions Division(tid) Senior SP Waruna Jayasundar­a and a police inspector of the TID Tharanga Pathirana are scheduled to appear before the PSC on July 24.

The official said that except for these police intelligen­ce officers all the other police officers would be questioned in the presence of the media by the PSC.

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