‘Truth will prevail’: Sri Lankan criminal investigator after bail

Top investigator claims innocence as he is released after more than 10 months of prison remand in a murder case.

Sri Lanka’s top criminal investigator insists he has done nothing wrong after he was released on bail earlier this week after more than 10 months in prison remand in a murder case in which a senior police officer has been implicated. Shani Abeysekara, 59, the former senior superintendent of police who headed the Criminal Investigation Department, is accused of fabricating and concealing evidence in the case against former Deputy Inspector General of Police Vaas Gunawardena, his son and four other police officers. The group was convicted and sentenced to death for the abduction and murder of Colombo-based businessman Mohamed Shiyam as a contract killing for $50,000 in May 2013.