CA issues interim order preventing TID from summoning former AG

by AJA Abeynayake

The Court of Appeal yesterday issued an interim order preventing the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) from summoning of former Attorney General Dappula de Livera to record a statement .

The Court also issued an order preventing the authorities from recording a statement from Dappula de Livera pertaining to activities during his tenure as Attorney General.

The interim order was issued after de Livera filed a petition before the Court of Appeal today over the TID summoning him to record a statement on an opinion he expressed about the Easter Sunday carnage while he was serving as the Attorney General.

Acting on a directive from Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe, the TID asked the former Attorney General to call over on 19 and 21 April 2023 to make a statement on a claim he made days before his retirement in 2021 that there had been a grand conspiracy behind the Easter Sunday attacks.

De Livera did not visit the TID headquarters last week and his lawyer went there instead and submitted a seven-page objection letter on his behalf.