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IGP Pujith Jayasundera and Police spokesman, SP Ruwan Gunasekera, while denying the adverse media reports yesterday, stressed that no minister has forced him or other police officers to soften the investigation on Anika’s complaint.

Addressing a special press conference at the Uduwana Police station in Galle, SP Gunasekera said the IGP has referred the complaint of Anika Wijesuriya’s death threats to the CID to conduct a full scale investigation. Further he said that it was the IGP, who has ordered the Criminal Investigation Department to initiate a thorough investigation into this complaint.

He wound up the press conference stating that the police department will write respective news publishers to carry a correction.