ජනාධිපති අනුරට යුක්තිය පසිඳලීමට ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයේ හා ප්‍රීති පද්මන්ගේ ඇත්ත

Colombo Telegraph published an opinion article by Rajasinghe Bandara about Chief Justice Preethi Padman Surasena and the judiciary. Colombo Telegraph reports that former Chief Justice Sarath Nanda Silva addressed the case of Buddhist monk Galaboda Aththe Gnanasara at a public forum last month.

The article presents Silva’s remarks as a criticism of that outcome.

Colombo Telegraph also recounts the writer’s account of a young father who had a two-year-old child and was allegedly detained over lacking an identity card in a public place, beaten by police and killed. The author says an article he wrote about alleged extrajudicial killings by police and the Special Task Force during the Mahinda Rajapaksa and Gotabaya Rajapaksa administrations was published in foreign media.

Colombo Telegraph further refers to the reported death of a young father in Homagama after police detained him over alleged possession of less than half a gram of drugs. The article says he was the father of a four-year-old child and that the incident occurred on a full-moon Poya day. The article gives no official response or further details about the cases.