No Cases Yet over Damage to Former MPs’ Homes During the Uprising
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- Former Sri Lankan lawmakers whose homes were damaged during the uprising say legal action against those responsible has not progressed properly.
- Former MP Premasiri Manage said police told him the investigation file had been sent to the Attorney General’s Department, which said it had not received it.
- He said he received some compensation, but it did not match the damage caused.
Former Sri Lankan lawmakers whose homes and property were damaged during the uprising say the promised legal action has still not properly moved forward.
Premasiri Manage, secretary of the Forum of Retired Members of Parliament, said no legal proceedings had yet been taken over the damage to his home. When he contacted Dickwella police, he said officers told him the investigation file had been sent to the Attorney General’s Department.
Manage said the department then informed him that it had received no such file. He identified the police file as SP3/81/2022 and said the conflicting accounts suggested that some kind of dispute or delay existed between the institutions.
He added that he had received some compensation for the damage to his house, but said the payment did not correspond to the extent of the loss.
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Originally published by Lankadeepa in Sinhala. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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