Fort Magistrate Lanka Jayarathne yesterday ordered four media channels to handover all the unedited video footage of the press conference conducted by Anti-corruption Force Director Operations Namal Kumara who allegedly accused that the Terrorist Investigation Division (TID) Director and DIG Nalaka Silva was conspiring to assassinate President Maithripala Sirisena.
The Magistrate made this order after considering the request made by the CID.
CID officials stated that the allegations were leveled against the DIG at a press briefing held in Kandy last Wednesday (12) by a social activist named Namal Kumara, director Operation of a social movement called, Anti-Corruption Force (Dushana Virodhi Balakaaya). He had allegedly revealed to the media certain audio recordings of phone conversations between himself and the DIG, the CID added.
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