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| Monday, 13 September 2004 |
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by Sandasen Marasinghe The Colombo High Court Judge Sunil Rajapakse on Friday acquitted an accused in the Galadari bomb case. The accused Kandasamy Pathgunarasa was indicted with conspiracy to bomb the Galadari Hotel on October 15, 1997. The bomb caused death of thirteen persons. The Court observed that although the charges include that the persons who conducted the crime were members of LTTE there was not sufficient evidence to prove the charge. But the court observed that the crime was an act by a group of terrorists who used modern weapons. The Court said it considered only the evidence produced before the Court. Kandasami Pathgunarasa, Thambirajah Loganathan alias Kannan, Sinnathurai Selvaratnam and Puhalapillei Konalingam were indicted on 16 counts including the conspiracy between October 15, 1996 and October 15, 1997 to blast the bomb at the car park of the Galadari Hotel in Colombo Fort. The case was heard in absentia of the last three accused. The incident caused the deaths of thirteen including Rev. Chandrajothi Thera of Sambuddhaloka Viharaya in Fort, Assistant Superintendent of Police Darmaratne Kuruppu and a foreigner. The Court observed that actual perpetrators of the act had died in the incident. The Court observed that a case which includes such charges should be conducted by a single State Counsel from the beginning to the end. Yet in the present instance several State Counsel had appeared for the prosecution. |
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