Sri Lanka, Sept. 17 -- Colombo Fort Acting Magistrate Shalini Perera yesterday ordered the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) to submit a progress report on the investigations carried out against Attorney-at-Law Hejaaz Hizbullah on the next calling date.

Attorney-at-Law Hizbullah is being detained and interrogated by the Criminal Investigations Department in connection with having allegedly aided and abetted suicide bomber Mohammad Ibrahim Insaf Ahmed, who set off the bomb at the Cinnamon Grand Hotel during last year's Easter Sunday attacks.

The CID informed the court that they expect to conclude the investigation regarding Hizbullah within few days and send abstracts of the investigation to the Attorney-General to seek further in...