Former Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police, Nalaka de Silva has been released from the case filed over the alleged VIP assassination plot in 2019.
The Colombo Fort Magistrate gave orders to release de Silva after the Attorney General informed the court that ‘insufficient evidence’ was found to support the allegations.
The former Director of the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) was arrested by the CID on October 25, 2018, over a suspected plot to assassinate former Presidents Maithripala Sirisena and Gotabaya Rajapaksa.
