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Zahran’s associate arrested, handed over to TID
The police have arrested an associate of Zahran Hashim, who led the National Thowheed Jamaath, which carried out the Easter Sunday carnage, for having promoted extremism among students and young school leavers in the run-up to 2019 Easter Sunday carnage.
DIG (Legal) Ajith Rohana said, yesterday, the police had recently apprehended the 38-year-old resident of Iqbal Road, Muttur in the wake information the suspect had addressed those who sat the GCE O/L and A/L examinations in the Muttur area.
DIG Rohana said that the Muttur man had acted on the instructions of Zahran, who was one of the Easter Sunday bombers. The top police officer said that the suspect had been detained under Detention Order issued in terms of the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) pending further investigations.
According to DIG Rohana of those over 700 persons taken into custody since the 2019 Easter attacks; some have been remanded and others are being held under PTA, pending investigations. The Terrorist Investigations Division (TID) and the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) are continuing probes into the incidents. DIG Rohana said that in addition to the Easter Sunday attacks, the police probe covered incidents in the run-up to April 21m 2019 carnage and developments thereafter.
Meanwhile, two persons held at the Polonnaruwa and Kegalle remand prisons have been handed over to the TID following directives issued by the Magistrate courts of Polonnaruwa and Kegalle, respectively. DIG Rohana said that the residents of Kattankudy and Gampola had been involved with Zahran Hashim and may have had close contacts with others involved in the conspiracy. (SF)
Following the conclusion of bilateral discussions between President Anura Kumara Disanayake and Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi, official-level talks between the delegations of Sri Lanka and India commenced this morning (05) at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo.
Representing the Government of Sri Lanka were Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Employment and Tourism, Vijitha Herath; Minister of Labour and Deputy Minister of Economic Development, Anil Jayantha; Secretary to the President Dr. Nandika Sanath Kumanayake; Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, Dr. P. Nandalal Weerasinghe, along with other senior officials.
The Indian delegation included Minister of External Affairs Dr. S. Jaishankar, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri and His Excellency Santosh Jha, High Commissioner of India to Sri Lanka, along with several other senior officials of the Government of India.
Indian Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, who arrived in Sri Lanka on the invitation of President Anura Kumara Disanayake on Friday [04] night, visited the Presidential Secretariat this morning (05).
The Indian Prime Minister was warmly welcomed by President Anura Kumara Disanayake upon his arrival at the Presidential Secretariat.
Prime Minister Modi is currently on a state visit to Sri Lanka, reaffirming the theme “Friendship of Centuries — Commitment to a Prosperous Future” which symbolises the longstanding ties between Sri Lanka and India. The Indian Premier is scheduled to remain in the country until tomorrow (06).
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The official welcoming ceremony for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, was held this morning (05) at the Independence Square in Colombo.
On arrival at the Independence Square the Indian Prime Minister was warmly welcomed by President Anura Kumara Disanayake.
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