High Level Pressure on IGP to Stop CID probe on Anika’s Death Threat.

Ms. Anika Wijesuriya is the owner of the penthouse at Monarch residencies, a penthouse which was rented out by Perpetual Treasuries Limited (PTL) to be occupied by a former minister’s family. She disclosed these facts while giving evidence before the Presidential Commission on Central Bank bond probe.

Based on the instructions of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) into the Central Bank bond issue, the IGP had previously provided police protection to Ms. Wijesuriya and her family members due to threats to her life, allegedly received by her, causing her to go abroad from where she had lodged a complaint via an email to the CID about the threat to her life. Additional Solicitor General President’s Counsel Yasantha Kodagoda, who revealed the threats to her life received by Ms. Wijesuriya, had also claimed her brother Vijitha had also been on the receiving end of several death threats said to have been made by a relative of former minister Karunanayake. Rightfully, the IGP had ordered the CID to launch an investigation into the death threat claims made by Ms. Wijesuriya. However, after the CID had commenced an investigation into the matter, the Police Chief had reportedly been pressurised to take the probe away from the CID. Will the CID investigation on death threat be stopped?