Attorney General withdraws another case against Anura De Silva - to enable him to join the peace keeping force

The CID chief investigating officer (IP Merrinege Anura De Silva) in the white flag case against General Sarath Fonseka was freed from a case in the Colombo High court where he was charged for torturing and harassing a suspect . As the AG had decided that he cannot proceed with the trial in this case any more, the High court ordered that Anura Silva to be released.


IP Anura Silva was charged under section 22 of the penal code as amended in 1994 ,for torture and subjecting to cruel inhuman treatment or punishment of the suspect Aruna Roshan Suranga Wijewardena taken into custody by the CID for alleged involvement in the Ceylinco Sriram Institution financial fraud case. The IP has subjected Aruna Roshan to these cruel ill treatments to elicit information and extract a confession.