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| Monday, 7 July 2003 |
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by Wasantha Ramanayake The Supreme Court awarded Rs. 25,000 to a mother of an 18 year old youth who was killed while in the custody of the Ganemulla Police. The Bench comprised Chief Justice Sarath N. Silva PC, Justices Asoka de Silva and T.B. Weerasuriya. Petitioner R.A. Sumanawathie, the mother of the deceased R.A. Ajith Premalal cited OIC Rohan Pushpa Kumara, Sergeant Jayantha, PCs Bandara, Kumarasiri, Weerasekera all of the Ganemulla Police Station and the Attorney General as respondents. Petitioner stated that her son was arrested by a police team clad in civvies that included the first respondent the OIC, on June 15, 2001. Then the deceased was taken to the Ganemulla Police and kept him there for three days without being produced before a Court of Law. She further stated that the Police tortured her son. She also stated that respondents hung her son by his thumbs and had assaulted him. The deceased had been in the police cell unable to move. She alleged that on June 19, 2001,around 4 in the morning, a Policeman came to her residence and told her that her son had escaped from police custody. Around 7.30 a.m. the Police informed the deceased's father that the deceased had committed suicide by jumping in front of a train and asked him to identify the body. Petitioner stated that both the finger nails of her son's middle fingers were missing. Further there had been white scars, and bruises on his hands, cuts and bruises on his feet and marks of burns on the body. The Gampaha Magistrate at the inquest held said that the death was due to a train accident. |
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