Meanwhile around 20 Prison inmates attached to Welikada prison in Colombo had also launched a protest on a roof of one of the prison buildings demanding the same it has been reported ,
According to the present law a Prisoner who had been sentenced to death needs to await few years to convert their sentence to a life imprisonment ..
Another 45 Corona deaths had been reported in the country today (24) increasing the total number of Corona deaths reported so far to 2814 according to National Covid -19 Prevention Center .
Accordingly 27 males and 18 females had died due to Covid Pneumonia and complications occurred as a result of the non communicable diseases they have suffered from as a result of the Corona infection the Center has stated .
අන්යයන් අනුකරණය නොකර තමන්ටම ආවේණික විලාසයට පුදන ප්රේමයද ,මිතුදමද සුවිශේෂී වනුයේ ඒ හරහා තමන්ගේම අනන්යතාවයක් ගොඩනැගෙන නිසාය ,එවැනි අනන්යතාවයක් ඇති බැඳීම් සුන්දර වන අතර ඒවා අතීතයේ ඉතිහාසගත වී ඇත්තේද එම බැඳීම්වල පැවති සුවිශේෂී බව නිසාය ,තම ජීවිතයේ තමන්ගේම අනන්යතාවයක් ගොඩ නගා ගැනීම වැදගත් වනුයේ මේ නිසාය ,
Former Parliamentarian Dunimda Silva who has been accused over the killing of another former Parliamentarian Buaratha Lakshman Premachandre and four others and sentenced to death by the court ,had been granted Presidential pardon today /(24) to mark the Poson poya day according to Prison authorities.
the Former MP Silva and four other were sentenced to death by the Court of Appeal on 08th of September 2016 and the decision was later re confirmed by the Supreme Court .
Silva along with 04 others were sentenced to death by the Court of Appeal after the charges filed against them were proved at the court .
Many in the society had condemned the release of former MP. who was charged over killing of another MP as it will provide a bad example to others who are already sentenced to death according to reports .
President Gotabaya Rajapakshe had today pardoned 93 prison inmates including Duminda Silva behalf of Poson poya day which falls today .Among those who had been released under the Presidents pardon today were 16 persons suspected as LTTE Cadres the Department Of Prisons had announced ,Silva is the only one in the list of Prisoners who was under death sentence to received presidents pardon .
The 22 member Cabinet of the new government which was appointed yesterday (18) had assumed duties in the respective Ministries today (19) i...
