By Our Police Correspondent The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is to take legal action against former Terrorist Investigation Division (TID) OIC Prasanna Alwis, accusing him of concealing evidence linked to the investigations into the murder of The Sunday Leader Editor-in-Chief Lasantha Wickrematunge. Police sources told The Sunday Morning that legal action was being initiated based on information uncovered that there was no progress in the murder investigation from 2010-2015 when the case was handled by the former TID OIC. Wickrematunge was killed while he was on his way to office in January 2009. The investigation into Wickrematunge’s murder was handed over to the CID on 25 November 2009 and the CID, in December 2009, identified Pitchai Jesudasan as a suspect, as he was the subscriber of five SIM cards which had been active in the same area as Wickrematunge’s phone on the day the murder had been committed. All five SIM cards were said to have been registered in the name of Jesudasan. When arrested and questioned, he had claimed that he had lost his national ID card, which could have been used to purchase the five SIM cards. It later transpired that Jesudasan was a close associate of Kandegedara Piyawansa, an army soldier who was attached to Military Intelligence. He was later arrested by the CID. However, P. Jesudasan had died of a suspected heart attack while in remand custody on 13 October 2011. CID investigations revealed that after the TID took over investigations no progress had been made until the case was handed back to the CID in 2015, The Sunday Morning learnt. Further, it was revealed that the TID had arrested 17 intelligence officers in 2010 who had been working with former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka without any reasonable suspicion, under Emergency Regulations. CID investigations had found that there was no relation between the arrest and the murder. The intelligence officers had later been released on police bail after they were kept in custody for seven to eight days.