Malaka –Rehan cannot privately settle a criminal case – legal luminaries
(Lanka-e-News-19.Sep.2012, 1.30PM) Legal luminaries of the country protest that an amicable settlement cannot be arrived at by Major Chandana Pradeep filing a motion in court that he is personally prepared to consent to this in the case where he was assaulted ruthlessly and his head was broken at several places by the sons of two Ministers and a group of thugs recently. The Lawyers assert that this is not a civil case , and therefore such arrangements cannot be made to dismiss this criminal attack.

It has been pointed out that this case has been filed by the CID against Malaka and Rehan . Besides the indictments are most heinous and criminal: robbery , obstruction of performance of official duties, assaulting a Major of the Army and forcibly taking away his official pistol. Consequently , this is not a case where a private settlement can be arranged going by the charges. The two accused stand indicted on serious offences which are un-bailable, the legal circles emphasize irrespective of what illicit understandings are reached outside the legal realm. 
They are most concerned because , if this kind of illegal political pressures are to hold sway , and Majors are treated this disdainfully because the country’s laws have gone to the dogs , pernicious legal precedents can be created . 

It is most likely therefore that in the future the Majors too will be beaten and tethered like the dogs of the politicians , not to mention the country going to the dogs due to the ‘political dogs’ who are behaving worse than the stray dogs on the streets.