The Supreme Court had qashed the Special Presidential Pardon granted to former Parliamentarian Duminda Silva by ex president Gotabaya Rajapakshe on Wednesday(17).
The Court directed the Commissioner of Prisons to implement the Conviction and Sentence against former Parliamentarian Silva who had recieved the life time imprisonment in 2016 over the killing of former MP Bharatha Lakshman Premachandre.Ex President Gotabaya Rajapakshr had granted special presidential Pardon to Duminda Silva on June 2021.