By Kamal Mahendra Weeraratna Courtesy Ceylon Today

Attorney General Dappula de Livera has decided to undertake a new course of action to see whether the AG could get involved in cases of crime filed by the Police Department, the Criminal Investigation Department and the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) from the outset of the cases, instead of waiting for those Departments to submit their final reports for his advice.

 As a result, AG de Livera, PC, yesterday informed, in writing, the concerned institutions to speed up investigations in connection with the Easter Sunday terror attacks of last April. Copies of the letters had also been sent to the President’s Secretary and the Acting Inspector General of Police.

The AG, through his reminder, has informed the respective institutions to keep him briefed daily on the progress of the investigations into suspects of the proscribed terror group, National Thawheed Jama’ath and those who had already perished from the terror attacks and on their activities.

He had also informed this decision to all concerned Deputy Inspectors General of Police and the Head of the TID.

 02:00 AM Jun 19 2019