SLHRC summons JMO over contradictory reports

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The Negombo Judicial Medical Officer (JMO) who inspected the schoolboy and the other suspect who were previously arrested in connection with the killing of Seya Sadewmi in Kotadeniyawa has been summoned to the Human Rights Commission.

Human Rights Commissioner Priyantha Perera had recommended the Negombo JMO to report to the HRC after the commission identified that the two reports compiled by the JMO during investigations regarding the schools boy had contradictions and inconsistencies.

The President of the Ceylon Teachers Union (CTU) Mr. Joseph Stalin filed a petition with the SLHRC against arresting the schoolboy without proper evidence.

He told the Daily Mirror that affidavits made by the residents in Kotadeniyawa had also been presented before the HRC today.

The residents in their affidavits had stated that Kotadeniyawa police officers had allegedly attempted to make the school boy guilt in connection with the murder to finish the investigations soon.

The 17-year-old schoolboy, the father of one who had been arrested, their parents, ASP Gallage and the Kotadeniyawa Police OIC had attended the hearing of the petition today.

The petition had stated that the boy was illegally detained for two days in police custody, assaulted without following proper methods when detaining a schoolboy. (Piyumi Fonseka)