Easter Sunday carnage: AG to record statement from his predecessor today

By Norman Palihawadane

Former Attorney General Dappula de Livera has been summoned to the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) today (19), police said.

Police said that the incumbent Attorney General has been instructed to record a statement from Dappula de Livera over an alleged statement that had been made by him, days before his retirement in respect of the 2019 Easter Attacks.

“There is a Grand Conspiracy with regard to the 2019 April Attacks”, he is alleged to have stated. There is a certain degree of scepticism surrounding the investigations due to that alleged statement.

Meanwhile, Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakse told the media that De Livera, as the Attorney General, at the time of the Easter attacks, should have summoned the Police and ordered them to conduct further investigations, if the level of inquiry was insufficient, or could have made submissions at the Magistrate’s Courts, in this regard.

Minister Rajapakse said that de Livera had been summoned before the TID to determine whether the latter had made the remarks and, if so, why he had made them.