Confession in Raviraj case, for whose want?

Jul 21, 2016

A certain senior official of the Attorney General’s Department has instructed the further remanding of one of the suspects in the murder of MP, lawyer Nadaraja Raviraj, say department sources. It is the same person who had made a confession as per clause 127 of the criminal procedure code. 

He has been named a witness of the state, but except him, all the other suspects have been given bail, which is clearly a conspiracy, says a department official.

 

This will discourage suspects of criminal cases from coming forward to make confessions in the future, the official notes. By now, certain department officials are acting in the manner the ‘Divaina’ editorial members behave, that is justifying any crime on the pretext of Sinhala Buddhism, the official told us further.