Saturday, April 4, 2015

Deterioration of the legal intellect

Father, mother, and son killed in retaliation for filing a fundamental rights petition against five police officers
by Basil Fernando
Sri Lanka Guardian( April 2, 2015, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka Guardian) Geekiyanage Premalal De Silva filed a Petition in the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka in 1989 alleging that some officers of the Panadura Police arrested him in May 1989, without a warrant, on a false charge of robbery and that he was tortured and subjected to cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment while in custody.