Former AG Dappula de Livera to appear before TID
April 18, 2023 01:45 pm
Former Attorney General Dappula de Livera has been informed to appear before the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) tomorrow (April 19).
He has reportedly been called before the TID in order to record information on his controversial statement of a coup behind the Easter Sunday bomb attacks.
On May 18, then-Attorney General Dappula de Livera had claimed that there had been a conspiracy behind the attacks that killed 269 people and injured over 500 on Easter Sunday in 2019.
On May 15, he had said in a letter to IGP C. D. Wickramaratne that the AG’s department was unable to press charges or file indictments against the conspirators and abettors of the Easter Sunday attack as the CID had not completed its investigations.
On May 25, Attorney General de Livera retired, while Acting Solicitor General Sanjay Rajaratnam was appointed as his successor.
Livera had infamously handled the Easter Sunday inquiry right from the beginning while he served as the Solicitor General before being appointed as Attorney General on 29 April 2019, just eight days after the Easter Sunday attacks.
De Livera succeeded Jayantha Jayasuriya, PC, who had been appointed as the Chief Justice.
