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?????????????????????????????????????????????????Thursday, July 27, 2017
It cannot be said judge was not the target in fatal shooting ! Investigations entrusted to CID : Judge weeps at funeral (Video)
(Lanka-e-News-
25.July.2017, 11.00PM) The shooting incident on the 22 nd in Jaffna was
not targeting the judge (a member of the three judges panel)
Manikkavasagar Ilancheliyan who is hearing the case of murder of school
girl Vidya , and this was a result of a dispute escalating among drunken
three wheeler drivers at a three wheeler park, said police media
spokesman on the 23 rd. The latter also went on to say , during that
time the vehicle of the judge was trapped in a traffic congestion , and
when a security personnel of the judge intervened , one of those in
that drunken group wrested the pistol of the security personnel and
shot down the latter. Three suspects in this connection have also been
taken into custody, the police spokesman added.
Lanka e news earlier revealed that a Tamil media published a report to
that effect on the 22nd. However based on reports reaching Lanka e news
inside information division on the 23 rd (noon) , it cannot be stated ,
that the firing was not targeting the judge , because the police
officer who was admitted to hospital had not made such a statement.
The police officer who eventually died had been on a motor bike
providing security to the judge’s vehicle. When this officer was
grappling with the gunman risking even his life , the other officer had
fired at the gunman wielding the pistol , and taken the judge to a
safer place. The assassin after the attack has dropped his pistol , and
after forcibly taking a motor bike of another had fled the scene on
that motor cycle.
Our informants point out , though those who fought against the LTTE
during the war died ,various Tamil youths who were acting as informants
for the forces and collaborated with them are still wielding weapons ,
and they cannot be controlled by the police. It is learnt that when
they are apprehended by the police they show their identity card (of the
forces), and escape.
The judge too in his statement had revealed , going by the way the
assassin used the pistol , he discerned he is well trained in weaponry.
In any event the investigations had been transferred from the Jaffna police to the CID .
The police officer who received gun shot injuries to his stomach and was
hospitalized succumbed to the injuries on 23 rd (morning) . He is 57
years old Ganewattage Sarath Hemachandra ,a police sergeant ( No. 24330)
of Kumarakattuwa, Chilaw.
The judge whose life was saved by this sergeant who sacrificed his life
was so grief stricken that when he arrived at the funeral house he bowed
and worshipped the widow of the deceased . He could not control his
emotions so much so he began to cry.
Jaffna was a place where during the 30 years of ethnic conflict killing
was a matter of routine. In this instance a Tamil judge weeping and
grieving so much for his murdered Sinhala security personnel openly
may not be consonant with traditions , but from the standpoint of
humaneness it is of immense value.
Truly , co existence and reconciliation cannot be built via laws alone.
Those can be achieved only via the hearts and truthfulness- it is
through the genuine spontaneous humane feeling for another , and
sacrifice !
Therefore the emotions judge Ilanchelyan could not control and the
tears he could not hide , as well as the sacrifice sergeant Sarath
Hemachandra made laying down his life will go down in history as
indelible memories.
Video hereunder of Judge Ilancheliyan weeping while mourning the death of Sarath Hemachandra
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