{"id":212698,"date":"2020-08-19T13:36:16","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T08:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=212698"},"modified":"2020-08-19T13:36:16","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T08:06:16","slug":"hejaaz-detention-fort-magistrate-orders-cid-to-submit-all-statements-obtained-in-investigations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/hejaaz-detention-fort-magistrate-orders-cid-to-submit-all-statements-obtained-in-investigations\/","title":{"rendered":"Hejaaz Detention: Fort Magistrate Orders CID To Submit All Statements Obtained In Investigations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following submissions by Defence Counsel that the Criminal Investigations Department is selectively reporting facts to the Magistrate in order to malign <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Hejaaz+Hizbullah\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Hejaaz Hizbullah<\/span><\/a>, Fort Magistrate today ordered the Criminal Investigations Department to submit a report of all statements obtained by them from persons relating to the investigations of Hizbullah.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_210268\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Lawyer-Hejaaz-Hizbullah.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-210268\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-210268\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Lawyer-Hejaaz-Hizbullah-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Lawyer-Hejaaz-Hizbullah-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Lawyer-Hejaaz-Hizbullah-768x489.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Lawyer-Hejaaz-Hizbullah.jpg 770w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-210268\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lawyer Hejaaz\u00a0Hizbullah<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When the case was taken up today. Counsel for the Defence informed Court that the Criminal Investigations Department had obtained statements from all persons of the Save the Pearls Charity and the Teachers and Board of Management of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Al-+Zuhriya\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Al-Zuhriya<\/span><\/a> Madarasa.<\/p>\n<p>However, none of those statements had been produced to date.<\/p>\n<p>They said that the statements would reveal that all the allegations made by the CID are a fabrication and were made in order to malign Hizbullah and that the suppression of those statements is because it would vindicate Hizbullah of the charges against him.<\/p>\n<p>Magistrate Ranga Dissanayake ordered to submit a comprehensive report containing all statements made by persons in the investigations related to Hizbullah.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier the Magistrate also ordered the CID to submit a report on the investigations into how confidential statements were leaked to the media. Two confidential statements made by children had been leaked to the media and the Magistrate ordered an investigations as to how these statements were leaked when they were made only to him.<\/p>\n<p>The Western Province DIG failed to submit any report on the investigations today after which the Magistrate made order to submit the report.<\/p>\n<p>Hejaaz Hizbullah a prominent Lawyer was arrest on the 14th of April 2020, under the Prevention of Terrorism Act. The Criminal Investigations Department filed reports stating that children of the Al-Zuhriya Madrasa to whom Save the Pearls &#8211; a charity in which Hizbullah was the President &#8211; had said that they were given weapons training.<\/p>\n<p>The Children with their parents filed Complaints to the Human Rights Commission and the Supreme Court alleging that they were coerced into giving statements after being taken alone without their parents throughout a period of 3 days, from dawn to dusk.<\/p>\n<p>Counsel Wasantha Nawarathna Bandara with a team of lawyers appeared for Hizbullah today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":210268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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