Supreme Court affirms death sentence for convicts in Vidya murder case

Colombo, May 6 (Daily Mirror) - The Supreme Court today affirmed the death sentences imposed on four convicts on death row over the rape and murder of Sivaloganathan Vidya.
Accordingly, the Supreme Court five-judge-bench headed by Chief Justice Preethi Padman Surasena decided to dismiss the appeal petitions filed by four convicts including Mahalingam Shashikumar alias Swiss Kumar.
They were convicted and sentenced to death by the Jaffna High Court Trial-at-Bar on September 27, 2015 for the murder of Sivaloganathan Vidya of Punguduthivu.