By Shehan Chamika Silva
Fort Magistrate Lanka Jayaratne yesterday sternly warned the Prison Authority officials to give necessary attention on the suspects who were brought to be produced before the court as there was a complaint that suspects Arjun Aloysius and Kasun Palisena had not received lunch or water till their case was taken up.
At the end of the magisterial inquiry into the bond issue, counsel who appeared for Arjun Aloysius and Kasun Palisena informed the Fort Magistrate that their clients have not received lunch or water for the entire day while they were at the court house.
The Counsel said the suspects were brought into the court house in the morning despite the case being taken up at the afternoon.
When questioned by the Magistrate, both suspects said they received breakfast at 6.00 a.m. and were brought to the court with other suspects in the morning and since then they did not receive lunch or water till the case was taken up at 1.40 p.m.
Fort Magistrate Lanka Jayaratne was seemingly unhappy about the incident and called all the suspects who were inside the court cell at the time and inquired about it.
However, when a senior officer of Prison Authority was questioned by the Magistrate it was said that the lunch was about to be provided to the suspects who were in the cell since morning but the lunch packets were received for the prison officers after the bond case was taken up. Therefore the other suspects were given lunch except Aloysius and Palisena.
Subsequently, Fort Magistrate observing the importance of providing the basic human needs even to a suspect, sternly warned the Prison Authority officials to prevent such incidents happening again as it was completely inappropriate and unacceptable and directed to provide the suspects with lunch immediately.
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