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AG files indictments against two persons over assault of editor Upali Tennakoon
The Attorney General has filed indictments against two officers attached to the Tripoli Military Intelligence Platoon over the assault of newspaper editor Upali Tennakoon and his wife in 2009.
Charges against the suspects have been filed under Section 317 of the Penal Code at the Gampaha High Court for "voluntarily causing grievous hurt" during the incident.
The accused have been identified as Ananda Udalagama and Lalith Rajapaksa who served as a warrant officer and an intelligence officer respectively in the intelligence platoon.
Tennakoon, the chief editor of a private newspaper, had been attacked on his way to work in Imbulgoda, Kadawatha on January 23, 2009. His wife too had sustained injuries due to the incident.
Medical reports had later shown that the editor had suffered one grievous injury and four non-grievous injuries while his wife had sustained non-grievous injuries.
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