Court of Appeal acquits SLPP MP Premalal Jayasekara

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Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) parliamentarian Premalal Jayasekera alias "Choka Malli" and two others who were sentenced to death were acquitted and released by the Court of Appeal today (31).

The appeals were filed by Premalal Jayasekera, former Provincial Council member Nilantha Jayasinghe and former Kahawatta Pradeshiya Sabaha member Vajira Darshan. They had requested to court to remove death sentences imposed on them by the Ratnapura High Court and that they be acquitted and released.

They were sentenced to death by Ratnapura High Court on July 31,2020 after being found guilty in a shooting incident which caused one death and injured two others at Kahawatta in Ratnapura during the 2015 presidential election campaign.

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