Wednesday, May 9, 2018 - 01:00
Colombo Additional Magistrate Ranga Dissanayake yesterday ordered to further remand IP Neomal Rangajeewa and former Prisons Commissioner Emil Ranjan Lamahewa until May 22 in connection with the Welikada prison killings in 2012.
The CID yesterday submitted a brief investigation report to the Court.
The Magistrate also ordered the CID to submit a report of the further investigation to court on the next day.
Twenty-seven inmates were killed and over 20 others injured in the shooting during the riot on November 9, 2012.
Inspector Neomal Rangajeewa of the Police Narcotics Bureau and Prison Commissioner Emil Ranjan Lamahewa were arrested by the CID on March 28 in connection with the Welikada prison riot shooting.
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