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The Supreme court of Srilanka has granted permission to proceed with a human rights case filed by Mr.Sugath Nishantha Claiming his fundamental rights were violated by the torture by Police officers of Negombo. The case was filled and was represented by Mr. J. C. Weliamuna, Attorney at Law. This case was filed against some Police

L.M.Beatrice the only witness in the murder case of Chamila Dissanayake ,who had been raped , strangled and  pushed out of the 6th floor of the new  wing of the Negombo hospital.  regains her job. . Beatrice   a mother of four children ,attached to a Private Janitorial Service ,earns  Rs.285/= per day. was dismissed ,after

On the 3rd of February 2008,  Mr.Rasika N.Muthumala,Computer Operator, an  employee at Kataragama District Office,had  assaulted and broken  the arm of 34 year old Mrs.Ediriweera Jayasekara Kurudu Patabadige Thanuja Lakshmi,who is residing in a house  belonging to  Kataragama,Gam Udawa Housing Development Authority. Victim’s husband an employee attached  to Housing Development Authority is working in Amparai. 

When  Gerard Mervyn Perera’s  murder case, bearing,  H.C.445/2005 was taken up at  Negombo High Courts on the 25th of January, the 7th witness was charged for giving false evidence, and an order was given to send  him to remand prison.  He was bailed out on  a  bond of Rupees Ten Thousand and  two personal bonds

The Murder at the Negombo GeneralHospital by a Doctor,which made a big uproar   in   Sri Lanka Medical Profession as well as the whole country, is getting cooler and cooler.  The employee who is the one and only witness  has been harassed and thrown out of employment.   Doctors  threatened to  Strike unless she was sacked.   This

It has been reported that , during the past few months , certain  Police Inspectors  and some officers attached to the Sri Lankan Police Service,have assaulted  some  Citizens ,in some parts of the Island, inhumanely,to the extent of  breaking teeth.  Out of these  there are two significant  cases details of  which are given below. On

On the 20th of January 2008, Inspector and some officers attached to Suriyawewa Police.took four boys  aged 16 years and a young man   to Police custody without any reason assaulted them mercilessly with S-lon pipes and bottles , and had filed false cases. Victims: Abeysekara Arachchilage Umesh Chaturanga ,Senarath Ratnayake,Nuwan Sanjeewa,K.G.Dinesh Madushan ,G.K.Lahiru Lakmal, all

This witness, a neighbor of the deceased, was named the seventh witness  of the State by the  Attorney General’s Department, after he did give very valuable information about the vehicle which was suspected,  involved in this murder. But after the cross examination of this witness by the council for the accused, the deputy solicitor general,