Chamuditha’s counsel to move court to order CID to take over probe into attack on his client’s residence

By Chitra Weerarathne

Kuvera de Zoysa, President’s Counsel, who appears for journalist Chamuditha Samarawickrama, yesterday told The Island that on 27 April, he would support in the Magistrate’s Court of Kesbewa, the application he had already filed, requesting a Court order on the CID, to investigate as to who threw faeces and stones at the Piliyandala residence of Samarawickrema on 14 February.

De Zoysa, PC said that a complaint had been lodged with the nearest police station. But, up to date, the police officers had not arrested anu suspect.

Hence the only avenue open to him was to seek a magisterial order directing the CID to carry out the investigation, he said.

The Magistrate had earlier ordered the police to give adequate protection to Samarawickrama. The application in the Magistrate’s Court, had been filed under ‘The Victims and the Witnesses Protection Act’, the Counsel said.