The Attorney General has requested the Chief Justice to appoint a three-member judge bench of the Permanent High Court at Bar to hear the case over the Welikada Prison riot in 2012, the Attorney General’s Department said.
A case is due to be filed against three defendants with 33 indictments including the murder of several inmates of the Welikada prison in the year 2012. IP Neyomal Ranagajeewa, former Commissioner of the Welikada prison, Emil Ranjan Lamahewa and Imaduwage Indika Sampath who was attached to the Prisons Intelligence are the three defendants.
The Attorney General has specified to the AG that the indictments due to be filed against these defendants should be taken up before a special tripartite bench and not a jury. He further said that the third defendant in the case Imaduwage Indika Sampath has been avoiding the police.
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