Vidya Murder Lalith Jeyasinghe Further Remanded

Earlier Senior DIG Lalith Jayasinghe was arrested by the Criminal Investigations Department in connection with the Jaffna schoolgirl Vidya Sivaloganathan rape and murder case and charged under Section 209 of the Penal Code for harbouring, concealing and assisting the main suspect in the case Mahalingam Sivakumar alias ‘Swiss Kumar’ to flee and evade arrest. Jayasinghe was the Senior DIG of the Kandy Division at the time of arrest.

Senior DIG Jayasinghe was charge sheeted on July 12 and was given a month to respond to the charges.

Swiss Kumar the main suspect who was handed over to the Police escaped from a hospital he had been sent to, for treatment.

Followed by this, Senior DIG Lalith Jayasinghe  further remanded until 8^th August 2017  by the Kayts Magistrate Courts today.