Srilanka, Feb. 6 -- A senior defence official, conducting a probe into the Easter Sunday attack told the Daily Mirror that according to Azath Maulana, former Coordinating Secretary to Pillayan has alleged as to how Pillayan arranged the Easter Sunday attack from the Batticaloa jail whilst serving a jail term for the murder of MP Joseph Pararajasingham.

Maulana has already made these revelations to Channel 4 and the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.

Maulana, a key witness to the Easter Sunday attack investigation, who is to be brought down from Switzerland in the near future, had allegedly accused Gotabaya Rajapaksa and former Director State Intelligence Service Suresh Sallay in working hand in glove with Pillayan in connection with th...