Sudar Oli Editor under arrest
Reports of abduction false:
Government Spokesman and Media and Information Minister Anura
Priyadarshana Yapa yesterday said Sudar Oli Editor N. Vidyatharan was
taken into police custody for questioning over a telephone conversation
with regard to the LTTE’s abortive air raid on Colombo on February 20.
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N. Vidyatharan |
He is alleged to have helped the LTTE in its suicide air mission.
He was arrested on information received by the CID that his telephone
had been used to make a call to the LTTE in connection with this attack.
Minister Anura Priyadharshana Yapa also said that at the time of his
arrest the police was unaware that he was an Editor.
If he has committed any offence, legal action will be taken against
him and if not he would be released, the Minister added.
He also said that there is no truth whatsoever in statements that
said that the Editor was abducted.
Police spokesman SSP Ranjith Gunasekera said that the arrested Editor
is being questioned by the Special Investigations Unit of the Colombo
Police.
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