Dear Mr. C. D. Wickramaratne: SRI LANKA: Letter to IGP on the police failed to take proper action in the case attempted cutting of the neck and thereby committing attempted murder Sarath Bundula Ekanayake has complained to the Yakkla Police Station that his neighbour and his wife living next to his premises attempt to sever his neck threatening ‘today, we will cut your neck’. He alleges that the neighbour’s wife is a police officer working at the police headquarters at Peliyagoda. In an affidavit filed by Sarath Bundula Ekanayake, he…
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K.H.G. Kushan Indika, vs Christy Leonard Ranjan Wijesekera, Officer-in-Charge,J.M. Karunaratne, Superintendent of Police, S.C. (FR) Application No. 129/2007
The petitioner, who was a Driver attached to the Sri Lanka State Plantation Corporation, had complained that his fundamental rights guaranteed in terms of Articles 11 and 13(1) of the Constitution were violated by the 1st respondent for which this Court had granted leave to proceed. The petitioner’s complaint, as submitted by him, albeit brief, is as follows: The petitioner had to report for work usually at the Head Office of the Sri Lanka Plantation Corporation situated at Vauxhall Street, Colombo 02 and as he was from Niyagama, Talgaswatta, for…
Read MoreUduwa Athukoralage Chandrasena, vs Sub-Inspector Buddhika, Officer-in-Charge – Crimes, Officer-in-Charge, Police Station, S.C. (FR) Application No. 258/2007
The petitioner complained that he was arrested on 27.06.2007 around 11.30 a.m. while he was on his way to attend a funeral in the Neluketiya area and that at the time he was arrested the,1st respondent had assaulted him. The petitioner accordingly alleged that due to the aforementioned action his fundamental rights guaranteed in terms of Articles 11, 13(1) and 13(2) of the Constitution had been infringed for which this Court had granted leave to proceed. Although leave to proceed was granted on Articles 11, 13(1) and 13(2) of the…
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