{"id":95640,"date":"2019-11-25T16:43:50","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T23:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=95640"},"modified":"2019-11-25T16:43:50","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T23:43:50","slug":"police-commission-receives-5-complaints-requesting-it-to-arrest-former-cid-director-shani-abeysekera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/11\/25\/police-commission-receives-5-complaints-requesting-it-to-arrest-former-cid-director-shani-abeysekera\/","title":{"rendered":"POLICE COMMISSION RECEIVES 5 COMPLAINTS REQUESTING IT TO ARREST FORMER CID DIRECTOR SHANI ABEYSEKERA"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p> Five factions have filed complaints with the Police Headquarters against former CID director Shani Abeysekera for allegedly investigating cases in a controversial manner to please political needs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> The complainants have requested to arrest SSP Shani Abeysekera and appoint a committee to review the cases which were investigated by SSP Abeysekera during the previous regime. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Further, they stated that SSP Shani Abeysekera is preparing to flee the country and attention should be drawn to his attempt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0dc1\u0dcf\u0db1\u0dd2 \u0d85\u0db6\u0dda\u0dc3\u0dda\u0d9a\u0dbb\u0da7 \u0d91\u0dbb\u0dd9\u0dc4\u0dd2\u0dc0 \u0db4\u0dcf\u0dbb\u0dca\u0dc1\u0dca\u0dc0 5 \u0d9a\u0dd2\u0db1\u0dca \u0db4\u0ddc\u0dbd\u0dd2\u0dc3\u0dca \u0d9a\u0ddc\u0db8\u0dd2\u0dc3\u0db8\u0da7 \u0db4\u0dd0\u0db8\u0dd2\u0dab\u0dd2\u0dbd\u0dd2\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ydwY09iI3Wg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> The   Police Commission recently transferred SSP Abeysekera to the Galle DIG office as the latter&#8217;s personal assistant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> However,   the complainants requested the police commission to arrest him rather than   transfer him <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> The   Police headquarters have instructed the CID director to initiate an investigation to the fleeing of IP Nishantha de Silva to Switzerland who investigated cases on political interest and in a controversial manner. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> This step has been taken as he left the country without obtaining permission while the special unit is conducting investigations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> In addition, police media spokesman SP Ruwan Gunesekera said that disciplinary action will also be taken against IP Nishantha de Silva leaving the country without obtaining proper permission. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> IP   Nishantha de Silva, who conducted cases with Shani Abeysekera in a   controversial manner, left the country with his family yesterday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Former   DIG Director Shani Abeysekera and IP Nishantha de Silva investigated several cases in a controversial manner during the previous regime to please political needs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Allegations were made against both Abeysekera and Silva for conducting investigations in a biased manner to please politicians. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> At the same time, when a police officer wants to travel abroad on a personal or official matter, it is compulsory for him or her to obtain prior permission from the secretary of the Law and Order Ministry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> However,   IP Nishantha de Silva has left the country yesterday without obtaining such prior approval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> In addition, his leaving the country is disputable at a time several factions are asking for an investigation be conducted on IP Silva.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> The   Police Headquarters has also called a report on an ongoing investigation on   IP Nishantha de Silva. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Meanwhile,   the Immigration and Emigration office at the Katunayake International Airport has received a list of 704 officers of the CID who are banned from leaving the country without obtaining proper approval beforehand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Airport authorities have confirmed this to our correspondent at the Airport.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News Five factions have filed complaints with the Police Headquarters against former CID director Shani Abeysekera for allegedly investigating cases in a controversial manner to please political needs. The complainants have requested to arrest SSP Shani Abeysekera and appoint a committee to review the cases which were investigated by SSP Abeysekera during the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}