AG recalls indictment

Deputy Solicitor General Dapulla de Livera submitted before the Supreme Court that the Attorney General has recalled the indictment filed against two persons including Tiran Alles before the High Court charging them with aiding and abetting the LTTE by Financing the construction of a house for Anna Laxmi mother of an LTTE sympathiser Laxmi Emilkanthan.

The Supreme Court Bench comprised of Chief Justice Sarath N. Silva PC and Supreme Court Justices Shirani Thilakawardene and Chandra Ekanayake.

The Attorney General Department filed an indictment before the Colombo High Court in November 2008 against Tiran Prasanna Christoper Alles and Basnayake Mudiyanselage Dushyantha Bandara Basnayake for making a house at cost of Rs 9.9 million at Kotte for Antony Anna Laxmi mother of Antony Laxmi Emilkanthan, an LTTE member.

Petitioner Tiran Alles in his FR application stated that he was taken into custody by the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) illegally on May 30, 2007 while he was being hospitalised. Later he was released when petitioner filed an FR case before the Supreme Court.

Further hearing was put off for February 16, 2009.