{"id":93212,"date":"2013-06-27T14:10:48","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T08:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=93212"},"modified":"2013-07-02T00:04:30","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T18:34:30","slug":"why-investigations-into-crimes-committed-by-vass-is-to-be-restricted-to-the-shyam-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/why-investigations-into-crimes-committed-by-vass-is-to-be-restricted-to-the-shyam-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Why The Investigations Into Crimes Committed By Vass Is To Be Restricted To The Shyam Murder?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Priyantha+Gamage&amp;x=15&amp;y=6\">Priyantha Gamage<\/a><\/span> &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_93259\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/why-investigations-into-crimes-committed-by-vass-is-to-be-restricted-to-the-shyam-murder\/priyantha-gamage-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-93259\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93259\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-93259\" title=\"Priyantha Gamage\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Priyantha-Gamage-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Priyantha-Gamage-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Priyantha-Gamage-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-93259\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Priyantha Gamage<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The IGP,<\/p>\n<p>Inspector General Police,<\/p>\n<p>Police Headquarters<\/p>\n<p>Colombo 1.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dear Sir,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Investigations into crimes alleged to have being committed by SSP Vass Gunawardena<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The standing committee of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka on Rule of Law views with deep concern the report that the investigations into the alleged crimes committed by SSP <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Vass+Gunawardena+&amp;x=8&amp;y=4\">Vass Gunawardena<\/a><\/span> is to be restricted to the alleged killing of the businessman <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Shyam+&amp;x=14&amp;y=1\">Shyam<\/a><\/span> and that the investigations into allegations on the commission of several other crimes that were revealed during the investigations are to be stalled.<\/p>\n<p>If this is correct, it will be a travesty of justice and the betrayal of the trust that the people have on the investigative process.<\/p>\n<p>We express our deep concern on this development and call upon you as the head of the police to take action regarding these revelations of commission of crimes under law.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Priyantha Gamage<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Convener<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Standing Committee of the BASL on Rule of Law<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":93259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,46,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-constitutional-reforms","category-editorial"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Why The Investigations Into Crimes Committed By Vass Is To Be Restricted To The Shyam Murder? 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