The 59-year-old former director of the Criminal Investigation Department was granted bail by the Court of Appeal on June 16 after over 10 months in remand custody on charges of fabricating evidence in a murder case against former Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Vaas Gunawardena.
The Court of Appeal slammed police for using “concocted stories” to incarcerate their own top detective whose detention sparked a censure motion against Sri Lanka at the European parliament.
The two-judge bench in their 14-page judgement granting bail to Abeysekara noted a blatant attempt by the Colombo Crime Division (CCD) of the police to frame the former director of the CID.
Abeysekara was arrested on July 31, 2020 by the CCD which accused him of introducing weapons to implicate former Deputy Inspector-General Vass Gunawardena, the main suspect in the 2013 murder of businessman Mohamed Siyam.
The court found that the weapons Abeysekara had discovered during his investigation into the Siyam murder were indeed traced to Vass Gunawardena who in fact had admitted to some of it in his dock statement.
The CCD had relied on the statements of Gunawardena’s co-conspirators in the 2013 murder of Siyam, but their testimony could not be trusted, the court of appeal said.
“The allegations against the suspect Shani Abeysekara are a result of falsification and embellishment and a creature of after-thought,” justice Bandula Karunathna said with justice R. Gurusinghe agreeing.
They also noted that the witnesses against Abeysekara had waited six years to make the allegation against him.
https://economynext.com/jailed-sri-...s-first-media-appearance-since-release-83396/
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The Court of Appeal slammed police for using “concocted stories” to incarcerate their own top detective whose detention sparked a censure motion against Sri Lanka at the European parliament.
The two-judge bench in their 14-page judgement granting bail to Abeysekara noted a blatant attempt by the Colombo Crime Division (CCD) of the police to frame the former director of the CID.
Abeysekara was arrested on July 31, 2020 by the CCD which accused him of introducing weapons to implicate former Deputy Inspector-General Vass Gunawardena, the main suspect in the 2013 murder of businessman Mohamed Siyam.
The court found that the weapons Abeysekara had discovered during his investigation into the Siyam murder were indeed traced to Vass Gunawardena who in fact had admitted to some of it in his dock statement.
The CCD had relied on the statements of Gunawardena’s co-conspirators in the 2013 murder of Siyam, but their testimony could not be trusted, the court of appeal said.
“The allegations against the suspect Shani Abeysekara are a result of falsification and embellishment and a creature of after-thought,” justice Bandula Karunathna said with justice R. Gurusinghe agreeing.
They also noted that the witnesses against Abeysekara had waited six years to make the allegation against him.
https://economynext.com/jailed-sri-...s-first-media-appearance-since-release-83396/
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