Sri Lanka: Supreme Court orders holds detention more than 90 days illegal (TamilNet)
Yahoo July 31st, 2008Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court, in a ruling on Fundamental Rights violation petition, held Wednesday that Sri Lanka Police violated the law by keeping an arrested person in custody for more than ninety days, and ordered the police to transfer the suspect immediately to remand prison. Three member bench of the Supreme Court made the order at the conclusion of the preliminary inquiry in the FR …
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