TNA Leader R. Sampanthan has written to Defence Ministry Secretary General Shantha Kottegoda requesting him to release Kathiragamathambi Rajakumaran alias Ajantha who has been detained in connection to the killings of two policemen in Vavunativu, in November 2018. 

In his letter, the former Opposition Leader said the investigations into the Easter Sunday Explosions had revealed that the two policemen were killed by "others."

It has now bee revealed that the killings of the two policemen were carried out by Jihadist extremist groups in the Eastern province. 

A weapon snatched from one of the murdered police officers had been used by the same group to shoot an individual in the Kegalle district. 

Terrorist leader Zaharan Hashim's driver, who was arrested in the aftermath of the Easter Sunday explosions, told the police that the murders were carried out by Zaharans group.