The Fort Magistrate’s Court ordered a hotel in Ahungalla to hand over to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) records relating to room bookings for former State Intelligence Service chief Suresh Sallay and Azad Maulana, who gave a statement in connection with the Easter Sunday attacks.
The magistrate issued the order after considering a request from the CID to obtain the records from the Riu Hotel.
Maulana, a former secretary to Pillayan who is now abroad, told the CID in a statement that he had met Sallay at the hotel on 15 and 16 August 2020.
The CID sought the booking records to investigate Maulana’s account of the meeting.