Former Attorney General Dappula de Livera has been summoned to the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) tomorrow (19).
Minister of Justice Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe revealed that the incumbent Attorney General was instructed to record a statement from Dappula de Livera over a claim made with regard to the 2019 Easter Attacks days before his retirement.
Stating that Dappula de Livera had claimed, “There is a Grand Conspiracy with regard to the 2019 April Attacks”, the Justice Minister said there is a certain degree of scepticism surrounding the investigations due to his statement.
The Justice Minister pointed out that Dappula De Livera as the Attorney General at the time of the Easter attacks should have summoned the Police and ordered them to conduct further investigations if the level of inquiry was insufficient or could have made submissions at the Magistrate’s Courts in this regard.
Minister Rajapakshe further stated that Dappula de Livera has been summoned before the TID to determine based on what information the latter had made the remarks and why he had made such a statement.
In early May 2021, former Attorney General Dappula De Livera claimed “There is a Grand Conspiracy with regard to the 2019 April Attacks.” (NewsWire)