NAME - DODANTENNE GEDARA

PREMATHILEKE

AGE - 38 YEARS OLD

 INCIDENT

On 08th January 2004 several persons including

two in police uniform came to the victim’s
house and assaulted him several times and
took him to the Katugastota police station.

At the police station too the victim had been

further tortured and released only on the
following day.

A victim had been severely beaten on his head.

Chest hands, legs and face.
 THE STEP WE TAKE AS A HUMAN RIGHTS
ORGANIZATION
 Informed and updated all necessary data to the
National & international Human Rights Organizations
& to the Urgent Appeals desk at Asian Human rights
commission.

 Investigate and find out all details about the case.

 Admit the victim in the general hospital for

treatment.

 Filing a FR application in the Supreme Court of

Sri Lanka under No.SC/FR/79/2004
 Present Status
An inquiry is pending at the National Human
Rights Commission under No. HRC 224/4.

He has informed us that the Police concerned

have forced him to withdraw his FR applications,
and promised to compensate him with
Rs.200,000/-. Since the victim did not agree to
the above settlement, the Police have falsely and
maliciously arrested him, and instituted action
on fabricated charges several times. He was
arrested and remanded for one month on the
above fabricated cases.

He is presently employed in Colombo, and was

compelled to do so as there are threats to his life
NAME – JAYASEKARA VITHANAGE
SAMAN PRIYANKARA

AGE - 32 YEARS OLD

 INCIDENT
On the 5th of January 2004 at around 4 p.m. or 5
officers from the Matale Police Station came to
the house of the Victim took him to the Police
station.

SI Pananwala started to beat him and told

another officer to boil some water in the jug and
poured the boiling water down his right leg from
the hip downwards.

The victim was warned not to report the

incident to any one or take any treatment and
released at around 12 noon on the 6th of January
2004.

After he was sent home the Police kept visiting

his house to see if the victim had taken any
 THE STEP WE TAKE AS A HUMAN RIGHTS
ORGANIZATION
 Informed and updated all necessary data to the
National & international Human Rights
Organization
& to the Urgent Appeals desk at Asian Human
rights commission.

 Investigate and find out all details about the

case.

 Admit the victim in the general hospital for

treatment.

 Filing an FR application in the Supreme Court

of Sri Lanka under No. SC/FR/78
 Present Status
The victim has been approached for a settlement
by the perpetrators and also promised a sum of
Rs. 700,000/-. The Kandy coordinator of the
Police Commission too had been instrumental in
trying to persuade the victim to settle.

Thereafter the victim was subject to several court

cases, and remanded on false and malicious
grounds against him. In one such instance the
victim was arrested and tortured by the Matale
Police, of which he sustained permanent injuries
to his right ear.

During his above arrest we managed to inform

all authorities concerned, and to get him
produced before a Magistrate, and got him
NAME - D.G. ATHULA SAMAN
KUMARA.
 INCIDENT
On the 16th of February 2004, the victim was arrested
without being informed of the reason for arrest and
was severely tortured by Officers attached to the
Katugastota Police station. He had been detained
unlawfully for four days at the time the complaint was
made to us.

We were informed of the incident by the wife of the

victim Mrs. S.W.Indrani. She also informed us that the
police officers were very rude to her and treated her
(who was at that time 4 months pregnant) in a
degrading and inhuman manner.

We immediately informed the National Human Rights

Commission, the National Police Commission and
Asian Human Rights Commission. We also took steps
to speak to the Police concerned to get him released
or produced before a Magistrate.
 PRESENT STATUS

An inquiry is pending in the Police Commission

under No. PC/KND/44.

NAME – DEHIWATTE GEDARA JAYATHILAKA

AGE – 48 YEARS OLD

 INCIDENT
On the 9th of March 2004 the victim was arrested
by the officers of the Mahawela Police, while he
was at the bus station.

The charge was that the victim was possessing

illicit liquor. He had been brutally assaulted and
tortured by the officers of the said police and
released on the same night.

On the following morning the dead body of the

victim was found lying in front of a house of a
villager. At the postmortem the Matale
Magistrate had decided that the death occurred
due to an assault by a blunt weapon.
 The step we take as a Human
rights organization

Informed the Asian Human Rights Commission,

National Human Rights Commission and the
National Police Commission.

Filed a FR case in the Supreme Court under No.

SC/FR/175/2004
 PRESENT STATUS
On the 14th of October 2004, the wife and the
daughter-in-law of the victim were arrested following
an attempt to get the FR applications withdrawn by
the victim’s family. We immediately informed the
relevant authorities and got them released. A case
was filed in court in this regard in the Magistrate’s
Court.

The FR application has been granted leave to proceed.

An order has been made on the Magistrate’s Court of
Matale, to produce the Post Mortem Report with
immediately effect in the Supreme Court.

An Inquiry is pending in the NHRC under No.

HRC/442/2004.

An Inquiry is pending in the NPC.

NAMES –

SIVABALAN
BALAKRISHNAN (19)

NILAMESHAN
SELVAKUMAR (18)

ANTHONYSAMY
ANANDAKUMAR (21)
 INCIDENT
The 3 victims, were hired once before by the a police
officer for a certain job for which they were not paid.
They were once again asked by the same officer to do
some job for him which they refused for the reason of
him not paying them before.
On the said refusal, the police officer on the 22nd of
July 2004, came to where they were
working and arrested them and took them to the
Matale Police station and severely and brutally
tortured them. They were beaten on their chests,
stomachs, soles of their feet and heads.
They were there after put in a squatting position with
their hands tied in front of their knees, and a pole
passed under the knee between one’s knee and arms.
There after they were lifted by the said pole which
was placed between two tables and were beaten by
cricket stumps on the soles of their feet. This is
 THE STEP WE TAKE AS A HUMAN RIGHTS
ORGANIZATION
Informed :-

The Asian Human Rights Commission,

National Human Rights Commission and

The National Police Commission.

PRESENT STATUS
An inquiry is pending at the NHRC under No.
HRC/3936/04/RC/iii.

Steps are being taken to file a FR application.

NAME - T.G. HEEN BANDA

AGE - 46 Years OLD

 INCIDENT
On 21st June 2004 the victim while waiting for a
bus at night, a police jeep stopped near him and
the OIC of the Hangurankethe Police called him
towards the vehicle.

On approaching the drivers side of the vehicle

the OIC who was at the drivers’ seat suddenly
and forcefully opened the door of the jeep so
that the victim got thrown away, as a result of
the impact.

When the victim tried to get up from his fallen

position, the OIC kicked and beat him and
thereafter he was taken and thrown into the
jeep and was further beaten. He was there after
dropped at a lonely spot and the police officers
fled. The victim’s left eye was thoroughly injured
 THE STEP WE TAKE AS A HUMAN RIGHTS
ORGANIZATION

Informed :-

The Asian Human Rights Commission,

National Human Rights Commission and

The National Police Commission.

PRESENT STATUS
An inquiry is pending at the NHRC under
HRC/4178/04/RC

An inquiry is pending in the Police

NAME – W.P.LIONEL
WEERASINGHE.

AGE – 33 YEARS OLD.

 INCIDENT
The victim was arbitrarily arrested and brutally
tortured by police officers attached to the
Yatawatta Police station on the 16th, 17th July
2004.

The victim was allegedly charged of stealing

Cinnamon worth Rs 80,000/- without any
evidence. Further more the Police pricked the
tips of the victim’s fingers and toes with needles.

The Police also made the victim squat and

inserted a pole behind his knee and arm and
brutally beat him for about 1 ½ hours while he
was turning like a wheel.
 THE STEP WE TAKE AS A HUMAN RIGHTS
ORGANIZATION
Informed :-

The Asian Human Rights Commission,

National Human Rights Commission and

The National Police Commission.

PRESENT STATUS
An inquiry is pending at the NHRC
An Inquiry is pending at the NPC under No.
NPC/PC/04/159
NAME - K.L.W.LIYANAGE

AGE - 54 YEARS OLD

 INCIDENT
On the 17th of July 2004 while the victim was
returning from work from Colombo, in the night,
a police jeep stopped near him and asked him
his name.

Thereafter he was hand cuffed and beaten and

taken in to the jeep by 7 police officers. He was
also severely beaten on the way in the vehicle.

Thereafter they had stopped half way and taken

out of the vehicle and brutally beaten until he
lost consciousness. When he recovered he was
taken to the Gampola Police station and beaten
further. He was produced before the Magistrate
and admitted in hospital.
 THE STEP WE TAKE AS A HUMAN RIGHTS
ORGANIZATION
Informed :-

The Asian Human Rights Commission,

National Human Rights Commission and

The National Police Commission.

PRESENT STATUS
An inquiry is pending at the NHRC under No.
HRC/4062/04/iii
An Inquiry is pending at the NPC
NAME - K.G.DHARMASIRI

AGE - 32 YEARS OLD

 INCIDENT

On the 2nd of August 2004, the victim was

assaulted by a police officer of the Hasalaka
Police station while he was at a shop near his
home, severely injuring him on his left hand
and having a permanent effect on him.

He was suspected of making illicit liquor, but

according to the victim the police is supposed
to have a personal enmity towards him.
 THE STEP WE TAKE AS A HUMAN RIGHTS
ORGANIZATION

Admitted the victim in the general hospital and

gave him medical attention and got a surgical
operation done on his fingers for correction.

Informed the Asian Human Rights Commission,

National Human Rights Commission and the
National Police Commission.

PRESENT STATUS

An inquiry is pending at the NHRC

An Inquiry is pending at the NPC

NAME - KUMARI
AGE - 18 YEARS OLD
 INCIDENT
Kumari Rupika, 18 years of age, was raped on
29th November 2003 by Sumeda Sampath
Rathnasinghe, when she was returning home
after work in Dambulla. The perpetrator is a
married man and had committed this crime while
his wife was away.
He had dragged Kumari forcibly to his house and
tied her with strips of cloth, wires and forcibly
poured alcohol in her mouth and raped her
twice, threatening her throughout of killing her.
The victim had escaped and had lodged a
complaint in the Police the very same night and
came to Setik seeking redress. She also informed
us that Sumeda is the son-in-law of a politician of
the area and that she and her family believe that
 THE STEP WE TAKE AS A HUMAN RIGHTS
ORGANIZATION

 Arranged a secure place for the victim to

spend
the initial few weeks.

 Provided counseling to the victim and her

family.

 Our Lawyers appeared on behalf of the

victim in
the Magistrate’s Court of Dambulla.

 Assisting the victim financially.

 PRESENT STATUS

On the 19th of July 2004, after 7 dates

of Trial the case was committed to the
High Court as the Magistrate found that
there was enough evidence of rape, to
do so.
NAME - SHAMALI
AGE - 20 YEARS OLD
 INCIDENT

Shamali, 20 years of age, was raped on 13th of April 2004

by Sarath, who was a supporter of a politician soon after
the election victory in Nawalapitiya.

On the night of the 13th Of April 2004, she was sleeping

with her grand mother when she was suddenly awakened
by a flash of a torch. Then the perpetrator had broken
open the front door. He had beaten the victim’s grand
mother and she was carried away from the house while
they were screaming for help. The time being just after
the election no one had come to their rescue as there was
a general scare of post election violence.

Shamali was brutally raped a few meters away from her

home and the perpetrator had run away.

The criminal being a supporter of a Member of Parliament

in power, the investigations were delayed and not
properly carried out.
 THE STEP WE TAKE AS A HUMAN RIGHTS
ORGANIZATION
 Provided counseling to the victim and her family.
 Our Lawyers appeared on behalf of the victim in
the
Magistrate’s Court of Gampola,
 Objected to granting bail to the perpetrator,
 Moved court to order the Police to start the
investigations afresh.
 Make continuous applications in court to get the
Police
to carry out various parts of the investigations
according to the due procedure.
PRESENT
 Provided counseling STATUS
to the victim and her family.
Non summary case pending in the
Magistrate’s Court of Gampola.
NAME - SAROJINI
AGE - 11 YEARS OLD
 INCIDENT

Sarojini, who is 11 years of age, was raped

by her father in the absence of the mother
who was abroad for employment.

On her returning the mother found out

about the daughter’s plight and came to
Setik for assistance.
 THE STEP WE TAKE AS A HUMAN RIGHTS
ORGANIZATION

 Appeared in the Magistrate’s Court and

objected to
granting of bail to the perpetrator.

 Provided counseling to the victim and her

mother.

 Providing a safe place for the victim.

PRESENT STATUS

Case pending in the Magistrate’s Court of

Kandy.
 We are looking
For a just society where there will be
Truth justice will prevail,
Even the voiceless
The marginalized
The poor the helpless
Will have a hope for
A better tomorrow!