An Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) and a police Sergeant, who were responsible for the President’s security at the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) Hambantota district meeting, have been remanded till 1 June.
The suspects were remanded after they were being produced before the Agunukolapelessa Magistrate on Tuesday (19) morning.
Earlier, Colonel Mahendra Fernando, who was the head of the commando unit of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, was also summoned to the Criminal Investigation Department, over the incident.
This came after the authorities arrested a Corporal of the Sri Lanka Army for allegedly bringing a firearm to the district meeting, which was attended by President Maithripala Sirisena on April 25.
The army corporal had attended the function with MP Namal Rajapaksa, it was reported.
However, the former President in a statement later said “A good soldier who has done nothing wrong has been arrested in a thinly veiled attempt to implicate my son in what is being portrayed now as a plot against the president. Questions have been raised as to why a member of my security contingent had accompanied Namal,”
