Pillayan challenges his arrest, detention before Supreme Court

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Colombo, May 15 (Daily Mirror) - Former Eastern Province Chief Minister Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan alias Pillayan has filed a Fundamental Rights petition before the Supreme Court challenging his arrest in connection with the abduction and disappearance of Professor Sivasubramaniam Ravindranath, a former Vice-Chancellor of the Eastern University.

Pillayan was arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in Batticaloa on 8 April and detained for 90 days under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) on 12 April.

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where is other criminal Thursday, 15 May 2025 08:37 PM

yes, by whom are the 12,000 people who have been forced to disappear in 2009 ???

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Kandaih Balendran Friday, 16 May 2025 12:50 AM

Pillayan is a disliked person, but if the PTA is abused against every person disliked this would become a failed state without human rights.

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A shy lum Sneakers Thursday, 15 May 2025 08:48 PM

Prof Raikndranath got down near the SSC sent the driver off asking him to come back on a few hours then walked to the nearby British High Commision and claimed political asylum. Now he is living in a foreign country.

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Kumara Friday, 16 May 2025 12:00 AM

Rubbish.

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joshua Thursday, 15 May 2025 09:04 PM

He deserves nothing, but staying behind bars.

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Radha Friday, 16 May 2025 01:09 AM

How about human rights of the people he killed?

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