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Padaviya Magistrate Court acquits Balendran Jeyakumari

2019-04-03

Balendran Jeyakumari and two other suspects were released from their case No. 81237/2015 by the Magistrate Court Padaviya today (03.04.2019). Attorneys-at-law V.S. Niranchan and Ajith Dissanayake have been appearing on behalf of Ms. Jeyakumari and the other suspects since September 2015. It is important to note that Ms. Jeyakumari was arrested by TID and army and police officers on 14.03.2014 in Killinochchi at her residence. Her only daughter Vibooshika (14 years of age) was also arrested with her but was released on 17.03.2014 in the Magistrate Court of Killinochchi. After prolonged detention by TID, Jeyakumary was produced in Court and was enlarged on bail on 10.03.2015 in Magistrate Court Colombo Case No: B/4002/08/2014. One of the conditions of bail was to report at Killinochchi police on the last Sunday of every month with which Jeyakumary had been complying without fail. Her case in Magistrate Court Colombo is continuing. However, on 30.08.2015 she received information from Killinochchi police that there had been a warrant of arrest on her from Padaviya Court. Having not heard of any case pending against her in the said Court, she duly surrendered in Magistrate Court Padaviya on 02.09.2015 and was enlarged on bail. However, she had to be in remand for 07 days until two surety signed the bond for her. It was discovered that the learned Magistrate had issued warrant on 10.06.2015 in the first instance without issuing summons or notice on her although police had moved only for summons by their B Report. Although Jeyakumary had been reporting to Killinochchi police each month, the police had failed to notify her about the existence of any case. The case was in regard to a mine-detector which had been stolen from the premises of Welioya Army Camp with which the CID tried attempt to implicate Jeyakumari.
Balendran Jeyakumari and two other suspects were released from their case No. 81237/2015 by the Magistrate Court Padaviya today (03.04.2018). Attorneys-at-law V.S. Niranchan and Ajith Dissanayake have been appearing on behalf of Ms. Jeyakumari and the other suspects since September 2015. It is important to note that Ms. Jeyakumari was arrested by TID and army and police officers on 14.03.2014 in Killinochchi at her residence. Her only daughter Vibooshika (14 years of age) was also arrested with her but was released on 17.03.2014 in the Magistrate Court of Killinochchi. After prolonged detention by TID, Jeyakumary was produced in Court and was enlarged on bail on 10.03.2015 in Magistrate Court Colombo Case No: B/4002/08/2014. One of the conditions of bail was to report at Killinochchi police on the last Sunday of every month with which Jeyakumary had been complying without fail. Her case in Magistrate Court Colombo is continuing. However, on 30.08.2015 she received information from Killinochchi police that there had been a warrant of arrest on her from Padaviya Court. Having not heard of any case pending against her in the said C