The 58 days that Tamil newspaper editor Nadesapillai Vithiyatharan spent in police custody will be the subject of a series of articles in the Sudar Oli, beginning tomorrow.
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Mr. Vithiyatharan was released on Friday by Colombo Fort Magistrate Gihan Pilapitiya after the Colombo Crime Division (CCD) failed to provide evidence to support the police allegations against him. The defence counsel argued that the editor should be released.
Mr. Vithiyatharan was arrested on February 26 while attending a family funeral in Mount Lavina. He was charged with helping to co-ordinate the February 20 LTTE air strike on Colombo, in which the Inland Revenue Department building was damaged.
Sudar Oli announced the serialisation on the front page of its Saturday edition.
Investigators checking telephone conversations Mr. Vithiyatharan had had on January 20, the day of the LTTE air strike, noted that most of the discussions were innocuous exchanges with local politicians, journalists and overseas-based friends.
The bank accounts of Mr. Vithiyatharan and his wife were also scrutinised by the police.
A fundamental rights petition on behalf of Mr. Vithiyatharan will be taken up for hearing in the Supreme Court next week. The petition maintains that the editor had been wrongly and unfairly arrested and detained. |
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