Srilanka, Feb. 6 -- As the investigations into the Easter Sunday attacks continue, high ranking defence officials probing the case have revealed to the Daily Mirror that travel bans on some former high ranking State Intelligence Service members has been imposed to prevent them from leaving the country.

Speaking to the Daily Mirror, these officials who wished to remain unnamed said that they were in touch with whistleblower Azath Maulana - the former Coordinating Secretary to Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan alias Pillayan and according to the statement made by him at the Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva and to the UK based Channel 4, Pillayan was allegedly instrumental in laying the 'foundation' to the barbaric suicide attack.

Maulana...