Former Public Security Minister Tiran Alles has been summoned to the Criminal Investigation Department to record a statement regarding the death of a police sergeant of the Colombo Crimes Division during a shooting incident near a Weligama hotel in Matara in 2023.
A senior official of the Criminal Investigation Department stated that the former minister has been summoned tomorrow to record a statement regarding the incident.
He said that the statement is scheduled to be recorded in this way due to the suspicion that the former minister knows information regarding the incident.
IGP Deshabandu Tennakoon is also currently remanded in custody in connection with the incident.
The Matara Magistrate’s Court recently ordered the arrest of 8 police officers, including the then Acting Inspector General of Police Deshabandu Tennakoon, in connection with the death of a police sergeant of the Colombo Crimes Division during a shooting near a hotel in the Weligama area