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Catholic church to protest removal of chapel within Magazine Prison
View(s):The Catholic church is to lodge a strong protest about a move to remove a chapel from inside the New Magazine prison in Welikada, Borella, depriving the inmates of a place for prayers.
Rev Hillary Peiris, the parish priest of All Saints Church, Borella, told the Sunday Times that he had been informed by inmates, that a prison official had allegedly assaulted an inmate who was maintaining the place.
He said that the inmate maintaining the place, had been ordered to remove all statues, and when he refused to carryout the orders, he had been assaulted.
Rev Peiris said that he will not be able to conduct the service due to be held today at the chapel, due to the incident.
Meanwhile, the injured prisoner, Stephen Dudley Nadaraja has been admitted to the Prison hospital.
However, Prisons Commissioner General Kodippily claimed he was unaware of a directive given by one of his junior officers to remove the chapel from the prison, and claimed that the ‘caretaker’ inmate had taken an overdose of diabetic drugs and was hospitalised.
He added that this ‘caretaker’ inmate had to be removed as he was a remand prisoner.
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