Colombo Additional Magistrate Nishantha Pieris today permitted the CID to record statements from former Senior DIG Anura Senanayake over two abductions that took place in 2008.

It is alleged that the former Senior DIG covered up evidence into an incident in which two persons had been abducted by an unidentified group from the Kotahena and Wellawatte areas in 2008, the CID told court.

The Additional Magistrate ordered the Superintendent of the Welikada Prison to allow the CID access to him to record a statement. Senanayake is being held in remand custody over the murder of former Sri Lanka national rugby player Wasim Thajudeen.