Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa has told the CID that he could not remember if he got a phone call from Karu Jayasuriya over Keith Noyahr's abduction. 

The CID questioned Rajapaksa today at the latter's residence over the journalist:s abduction. 

Speaker Karu Jayasuriya, in his statement to the CID, had said he contacted Rajapaksa over the phone after the journalist was abducted. 

After Jayasuriya' s call to Rajapaksa, the abductors had released the journalist. 

"Is the release of the journalist a bad outcome?" Rajapaksa asked, while speaking to media after giving a statement to the CID.