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Sri Lanka: One Island Two Nations
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Thiranjala Weerasinghe sj.- One Island Two Nations
?????????????????????????????????????????????????Tuesday, July 4, 2017
SC ORDERS STATE TO PAY RS.2 M COMPENSATION
The Supreme Court has ordered the State to pay a sum of two million
rupees as compensation to the parents of two youths who were allegedly
subjected to torture and killed while they were in Police custody in
2008.
The Supreme Court further ordered the former OIC of Batticaloa Police
station to to pay compensation of Rs.50,000 each personally as damages
to the two families for violating their Fundamental Rights.
The three-judge-Bench comprising Chief Justice Priyasath Dep, Justice
Upaly Abeyratne and Justice Anil Goonaratne made this order persuant to a
Fundamental Rights petitions filed by parents of deceased youths.
The Supreme Court has ordered the state to pay compensations of one
million rupees on each family after observing that the state is
responsible and accountable for the violation of the Fundamental Rights
of the petitioners’ sons.
Selvarajah Gunaseelan (26) and K.Kugadas (26) were arrested along with
six others on October 3, 2008 by Batticaloa police. The petitioners, the
parents of deceased stated that they went near the cell on October
3,2008 and saw all the seven detainees were still there without being
released.
The petitioners stated that they were told by the first OIC of
Batticaloa Police that their sons will be released on that itself and
thereby they left the police station. The petitioners stated that their
sons were taken out from the cell by Police personnel attached to the
above said Police station at 12 mid night on October 4, 2008, subjected
to torture, killed by them while in their custody and tied to a concrete
post along with the body of the deceased and were thrown into the sea
hoping that the bodies will get drowned and that these boys will get
added to the list of the disappeared.
The first respondent T. S. Wickremesinghe was the officer in charge
during a search operation by them in which the first respondent also
took part and detained by him at his police station under the Emergency
Regulations.
The petitioners cited the former OIC of Batticaloa Police and four
others as respondents. The petitioners stated that their deceased sons’
arrest, detention are wrongful and illegal and that he was subjected to
torture and that his fundamental rights guaranteed by Article 11, 13(1),
13(4) and 17 of the constitution were violated by the respondents.
President’s Counsel Saliya Peiris appeared for the petitioners. Senior
State Counsel Madawa Tennakoon appeared for the Attorney General.