CCTV footage of Zahran Hashim's group's oath-taking has been destroyed! Complaint to the IGP

A complaint has been filed with the IGP by social activist Aishwarya Gunaratne regarding the destruction of CCTV footage of the oath-taking ceremony taken by the Şahran Hashim group at Span Tower in Wellawatte, which carried out the Easter Sunday attack, and the negligence of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID). We had also previously filed a complaint with the IGP regarding the investigations being conducted into the CCTV footage. The videos seized by the Criminal Investigation Department The Criminal Investigation Department seized these videos on 21 April 2019, the very day of the Easter Sunday attack. However, they were sent to the Government Chemical Analysis Department on 24 January 2020. However, they have been keeping them in their possession for 9 months. All the information contained in it was destroyed when it was sent. We have now received a letter from the Criminal Investigation Department in this regard. The Government Chemical Analyst's Department has stated in a letter to the CID: "There is no remaining data on the hard disk of the DVR machine sent for analysis, and it is not possible to recover the deleted data using the software facilities in our laboratory." That is, the data has been destroyed. It was sent only after 9 months, and the data has been destroyed since it was kept in their possession for 9 months. After this, a letter has been sent from the Criminal Investigation Department to the then Acting Inspector General of Police (i.e. the current Inspector General of Police) in this regard. What is very clear is that many important data required for investigations were contained in these CCTV videos. That is, all these scenes were destroyed only after the Criminal Investigation Department officials viewed and analyzed these data. Furthermore, this DVR machine was not legally seized or presented to the court as an object of the case. That is, the Criminal Investigation Department did not properly record it in their books or related documents.