Rtd Army Captain ordered to pay Rs. 1.5M
MADHAWA BANDARA- AUG 29 2018
Gampola Magistrate and District Judge Chandani Meegoda today (29) ordered a retired Captain of the Army to pay compensation in a sum of Rs. 1.5 million to a Police Constable (PC) for causing financial and mental agony to the latter.
The Judge concluded that the retired Army Captain, identified as Lumbini Somaratne had willfully continued to exert revenge on PC S.A. Priyantha Kelum, a resident of Gelioya, who had filed a case against the former in 2009.
The Army Captain had been in charge of the Tamil Language Training School in Kotmale at that time.
The plaintiff had stated in his petition to the Court that he had attended the Tamil Language Training School in Kothale in May 1999 and the respondent had issued death threats to him forcing him to abandon his language training.
The plaintiff had stated that the respondent Army Captain, by using his rank had forced top Police officers to harass the plaintiff thereby bringing about mental distress to him.
During the Court case it had been revealed that the PC concerned had been transferred to 11 far-flung Police Stations within the Nuwara Eliya District and on each of those occasions he had been subjected to mental torture.
Announcing her decision, Magistrate Meegoda said that the plaintiff, to his credit had shown mental fortitude to take harassment in his stride and fight along without giving into the actions of the defendant.
It was claimed in Court that the respondent had fallen out with the plaintiff after the latter had frisked the former and his spouse when they had been travelling through the Ulapane checkpoint, put up as a protection for the Kotmale tank during the war in 1999.
The Judge concluded that the retired Army Captain, identified as Lumbini Somaratne had willfully continued to exert revenge on PC S.A. Priyantha Kelum, a resident of Gelioya, who had filed a case against the former in 2009.
The Army Captain had been in charge of the Tamil Language Training School in Kotmale at that time.
The plaintiff had stated in his petition to the Court that he had attended the Tamil Language Training School in Kothale in May 1999 and the respondent had issued death threats to him forcing him to abandon his language training.
The plaintiff had stated that the respondent Army Captain, by using his rank had forced top Police officers to harass the plaintiff thereby bringing about mental distress to him.
During the Court case it had been revealed that the PC concerned had been transferred to 11 far-flung Police Stations within the Nuwara Eliya District and on each of those occasions he had been subjected to mental torture.
Announcing her decision, Magistrate Meegoda said that the plaintiff, to his credit had shown mental fortitude to take harassment in his stride and fight along without giving into the actions of the defendant.
It was claimed in Court that the respondent had fallen out with the plaintiff after the latter had frisked the former and his spouse when they had been travelling through the Ulapane checkpoint, put up as a protection for the Kotmale tank during the war in 1999.
