CID requests Court to order Dr. Shafi to return CCTV camera recordings

Sri Lanka, Jan. 18 -- Officials of the Criminal Investigation Department yesterday requested the Kurunegala Magistrates' Court to order Doctor Shafi Shihabdeen to return the recordings of the CCTV camera found at his house which should be a special court production under the CID since it had already been handed over to the suspect by some of the former officials of the CID.

ASP Vijitha who represents the CID made this request when the case against Dr. Shafi Shihabdeen who worked at the Kurunegala Teaching Hospital's Gynaecology and Obstetric Unit, accused of performing illegal sterilisation surgeries on Sinhala Buddhist mothers and amassing assets through suspicious means, was taken up before the Kurunegala Magistrates' Court. He informed...