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Sri Lankan soldier and intelligence personnel convicted of 2010 murder of Hindu priest

A Sri Lankan soldier and two local Tamil military intelligence employees were handed death sentences by the Jaffna High Court for the murder of a Hindu priest during a burglary in 2010.

The high court judge, M. Ilancheliyan convicted the three of shooting and killing the priest in Sankanai in April 2010, as well as injuring his two sons.

With the death sentence in excess of twenty years imprisonment, the judge also ordered the three to pay several hundreds of thousands of rupees in compensation and court fines.

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