A man who is being held on suspicion of having murdered Tamil National Alliance MP Nadarajah Raviraj, has filed a fundamental rights violation petition in Sri Lanka's Supreme Court.
MA Sampath Munasinghe, alleges illegal detention by the CID and cited the IGP and the CID as respondents in the case. He requested the court to declare the violation of his personal liberty, The Island reported.
Mr Raviraj was assassinated in Colombo in November 2006, at a time when the capital was heavily fortified by Sri Lanka's military. The government was accused of being behind the attacks by the TNA, diaspora organisations and the UNP. The US led international criticism of the government and urged it to conduct an investigation. #
Then-President Mahinda Rajapaksa ordered an inquiry and two suspects, Nalaka Mathagaweera and Aruna Shantha Ediriweera, were arrested in 2007. Mr Rajapaksa requested assistance from Britain’s Scotland Yard, who sent a team to work with the Criminal Investigation Department, who looked at evidence. Nothing came of the inquiry.
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