Release the motorcycle and refund the bail!
Journalist Solamalai Ketheeswaran (43) has requested the Human Rights Commission to take action to recover the bail and the motorcycle.
He said that he was arrested by the Navy on suspicion and later released and requested the Human Rights Commission to assist in recovering the motorcycles and bail seized at the time of his arrest.
Ketheeswaran Mahaka, a resident of Pallankotte, Nanattan, Mannar, was arrested by the Navy on December 29, 2005 in the Talvupadu area in Mannar and detained in prisons such as Anuradhapura New Magazine and Welikada after three months of interrogation in the Terrorist Suppression Division. He was released on Rs. 100,000 bail by the Colombo Magistrate’s Court in 2008 and was released by the Vavuniya District High Court in 2010.
According to the complaint, the motorcycle seized at the time of his arrest and the bail of Rs. 100,000 have not been returned yet.
He has lodged a complaint against the police and the Terrorist Suppression Division. He said that not returning his property and money was a violation of human rights and that no action had been taken despite informing the relevant parties on a number of occasions.
Mr. Ketheeswaran has expressed his displeasure over the non-timely return of his property, which had been detained on suspicion for so long, to the Anti-Terrorism Division, and requested the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka to assist in obtaining his property.
Ketheeswaran said that he had been subjected to this injustice on the basis of race, political policy and language, which had contributed to human rights abuses.
– Journalist Solamalai Ketheeswaran
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