Court orders arrest of ASP and HQI Over Embilipitiya Clash

The Embilipitiya Magistrate has instructed the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) to arrest the suspects including the former Embilipitiya Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) and the Headquarters Inspector (HQI),if there are sufficient evidence in connection with the clash, which resulted in one death on January 04.

The Magistrate ordered the CID to immediately arrest the ASP and the HQI and produce them before the court as well as to arrest the other suspects and produce them in an identification parade, President’s Counsel Hemantha Warnakulasooriya told.