Colombo Additional Magistrate Priyantha Liyanage yesterday allowed the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to obtain telephone call records of the phones of 12 persons who are suspected to have been involved in Welikada Prison riot murders in 2012.
Police Narcotics Bureau Inspector Neomal Rangajeewa and former Prisons Commissioner Emil Ranjan Lamahewa, who were in remand custody over the Welikada Prison riots in 2012, were yesterday ordered to be further remanded till July 3 by the Additional Magistrate.
Rangajeewa and Lamahewa were arrested by the CID on March 28 in connection with the Welikada prison riots shooting. Twenty seven inmates were killed and over 20 others injured in the shooting during the riot on November 9, 2012.
Criminal Investigation Department informed the Magistrate that weapons that used to kill the inmates were handed over to the Government Analyst.
The CID pleaded with the Magistrate to issue an order to dismantle the weapon and submit parts to the Government Analyst.
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