{"id":63146,"date":"2019-03-08T23:46:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T04:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=63146"},"modified":"2019-03-09T02:59:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T07:59:00","slug":"cid-chief-investigator-nishantha-silva-probing-cases-of-attacks-against-journalists-and-abduction-for-ransom-by-navy-called-hangman-and-villain-in-scathing-attack-by-in-courts-by-romesh-de-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=63146","title":{"rendered":"CID Chief Investigator Nishantha Silva Probing Cases of Attacks Against Journalists and Abduction For Ransom By Navy Called “Hangman” and “Villain” in Scathing Attack in Courts by Romesh de Silva PC."},"content":{"rendered":"

Romesh De Silva PC launched a blistering attack on CID Gang Robberies Branch OIC Nishantha Silva, the lead investigator in the controversial Navy abductions case that has garnered wide public interest.<\/strong><\/p>\n

De Silva PC said that in February 2015, IP Silva had been handed over the investigation into the alleged abduction racket by the Navy, on the basis that a proper job had not been done on the probe that far.<\/p>\n

De Silva PC referred to the CID sleuth as a \u2018hangman\u2019 and \u2018villain\u2019 in his submissions before the Supreme Court yesterday, as he tried to make the case that the police investigation that had allegedly found Karannagoda to be a suspect set for indictment by the Attorney General in the grisly abduction racket, for aiding and abetting the murders of the 11 boys, was filled with bad intentions and conducted in a partisan manner. <\/p>\n

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\u201cSo now we come to the hangman – the investigator who takes over in 2015 – the real villain of the piece,\u201d De Silva PC charged, referencing Silva, who was cited as the first respondent in the former Navy Commander\u2019s FR petition.<\/p>\n

De Silva PC also claimed that his \u201cpatriotic blood boiled\u201d as he read a section of a 2016 B report filed by IP Silva, which sought a Court order to permit a UN team to visit the Gun Site underground prison cells at the Trincomalee Naval base, where the boys were allegedly incarcerated before their suspected murder.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow this is where I really got angry \u2013 this is where my blood boils \u2013 any patriotic person will get angry. Why are we allowing UN people to go into our Navy camps to investigate? Would the US allow this? And now they are trying to arrest the Navy Commander,\u201d Counsel for Karannagoda charged.<\/p>\n

De Silva PC also claimed that the UN team had discovered bone fragments in the cells, which the Magistrate had ordered a report on by the Government Analyst, which in turn had found in May 2016 that the bones belonged to a small wild animal.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo this is the type of investigation,\u201d the Counsel charged.<\/p>\n

IP Silva is the lead investigator on several key violent crimes investigations, including the assassination of former Sunday Leader Editor Lasantha Wickrematunge, the abduction of cartoonist Prageeth Ekneligoda, and the abduction and torture of former Nation Deputy Editor Keith Noyahr.<\/p>\n

This is not the first time he has found himself in the cross-hairs of key officials in the previous administration, who have found themselves to be persons of interest in these high profile investigations.During the October-December attempted coup last year, the 52-day Government tried to transfer IP Silva out of the CID. Strong resistance to the move, including from victims\u2019 families, rights activists, and media personnel who knew the sleuth\u2019s role in investigating crimes against journalists, resulted in the transfer being reversed in 24 hours.<\/p>\n

At the time, Wickrematunge\u2019s daughter Ahimsa wrote a strongly worded letter to President Maithripala Sirisena, urging him to allow IP Silva to continue his work. Writing a glowing tribute to IP Silva and his tireless efforts to bring her father\u2019s killers to justice, Ahimsa Wickrematunge said: \u201cEver since I got to meet Nishantha Silva, I was struck by his gentleness, humility, and dedication to his job. I started following his work, and was stunned by the number of high-profile cases that Nishantha Silva is handling. He is also the lead investigator into the brutal May 2008 abduction and torture of journalist Keith Noyahr. Nishantha Silva\u2019s team reconstructed and scoured millions of telephone records, recorded over one hundred witness statements, located the military intelligence safe house in which Keith Noyahr was tortured, recovered documents proving the safe house was leased by military intelligence, and arrested eight military intelligence officers, including the former Army Chief of Staff. Seven of these suspects were from the infamous \u201cTripoli\u201d white-van platoon, implicated in the murder of my father. Heck, he even found the infamous \u201cwhite van\u201d, and brought it before court. <\/p>\n

This engine of death was a symbol of your election campaign, emblematic of the vicious brutality of your opponents.\u201d<\/p>\n

Courtesy:Daily FT<\/em><\/p>\n

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Romesh De Silva PC launched a blistering attack on CID Gang Robberies Branch OIC Nishantha Silva, the lead investigator in the controversial Navy abductions case that has garnered wide public interest. De Silva PC said that in February 2015, IP Silva had been handed over the investigation into the alleged abduction racket by the Navy, …<\/p>\n

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