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.
The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has interdicted Colombo Fort Magistrate Kosala Senadheera.
Mr. Ali Sabri Rahim, a Member of Parliament (MP) for Puttalam District whom an open warrant had been issued, attended a public ceremony at Al Aksha National School in Kalpitiya today (16) as the special guest of honor.
The Supreme Court today refused interim relief in an application filed by President’s Counsel Senaka Walgampaya seeking an Order from the Supreme Court compelling the President to appoint judges to fill the existing vacancies in the Court Of Appeal.
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Acting Attorney General Parinda Ranasinghe, was appointed as the Attorney General of Sri Lanka a short while ago.
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