{"id":83862,"date":"2024-04-03T00:27:05","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T04:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=83862"},"modified":"2024-04-03T07:20:27","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T11:20:27","slug":"former-president-maithripala-sirisena-informs-maligakanda-magistrate-lochani-abeywickrema-that-he-would-not-provide-a-fresh-confidential-statement-in-court-as-he-has-already-done-so-to-the-cid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=83862","title":{"rendered":"Former President Maithripala Sirisena Informs Maligakanda  Magistrate Lochani Abeywickrema  that he would not Provide a Fresh  Confidential Statement in Court as he has already done so to the CID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By LAKMAL SOORIYAGODA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Former President Maithripala Sirisena has informed the Maligakanda Magistrate&#8217;s Court that he will not provide a confidential statement before the magistrate in connection with his controversial revelation regarding the Easter Sunday attacks.<\/p>\n<p> Court had earlier directed the former President to appear before Court on April 4 following a request by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In a motion before Magistrate Lochani Abeywickrema, a lawyer representing former President Sirisena informed court that his client does not intend to make a confidential statement regarding the Easter Sunday attacks since he has already made a detailed statement to the CID. After hearing the submissions, the Magistrate held that there is no necessity for the former President to appear before court on April 4.  <\/p>\n<p>The CID had filed a facts report before Maligakanda Magistrate&#8217;s Court regarding the statement the former President had made recently. Minister of Public Security Tiran Alas had instructed the Inspector General of Police to conduct a comprehensive investigation into the statement made by the former President in Kandy that he knew the people involved in the Easter Sunday bomb attacks on 21 April 2019.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Daily Mirror<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton83862\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D83862&amp;text=Former%20President%20Maithripala%20Sirisena%20Informs%20Maligakanda%20%20Magistrate%20Lochani%20Abeywickrema%20%20that%20he%20would%20not...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By LAKMAL SOORIYAGODA Former President Maithripala Sirisena has informed the Maligakanda Magistrate&#8217;s Court that he will not provide a confidential statement before the magistrate in connection with his controversial revelation regarding the Easter Sunday attacks. Court had earlier directed the former President to appear before Court on April 4 following a request by the Criminal &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=83862\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Former President Maithripala Sirisena Informs Maligakanda  Magistrate Lochani Abeywickrema  that he would not Provide a Fresh  Confidential Statement in Court as he has already done so to the CID&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83862"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83863,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83862\/revisions\/83863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}