Sri Lanka: Attorney General tells Police Chief to launch fully-fledged investigation on Monday's (9) violence

COLOMBO (News 1st); Sri Lanka's Attorney General Sanjay Rajaratnam, PC has advised the Inspector General of Police to conduct a fully-fledged investigation in to the incidents of unlawful interference into the people's constitutional rights, the circumstances that led to them; and, the consequent commission of penal offences in the process.

In a letter to the IGP, the Attorney General said the as the incident in metropolitan Colombo triggered sporadic acts of violence of serious nature involving people and their property all over the country, he advised the police chief to further investigation the aftermath of the incidents.

He urged the IGP to complete the investigation on urgent priority basis.