Habeas Corpus petition fixed for support

The Habeas Corpus petition filed by the wife of JVP founding leader Rohana Wejeweera seeking an order to produce the Corpus (body) of Rohana Wijeweera before Court to be dealt with according to law was yesterday fixed for support by Court of Appeal.

The petitioner Sreemathi Chithrangani Wijeweera also sought an order in the nature of writ of Habeas Corpus releasing or discharging the Corpus forthwith from detention or custody.

Filing this petition through Counsel Senaka Perera, the Petitioner states that she did not believe about his death as per the news telecast as she saw her husband alive on television and she never came across a dead body of the Corpus neither anybody provided an official document to her or any inquest, magisterial inquiry or any such legal process.

The Petitioner, aged 62 is the wife of Rohana Wijeweera is currently residing at the Navy Camp in Welisara. The Petitioner states that she is a mother of six children who suffered immensely due to their father’s detention and disappear.

The petitioner was kept in protected custody and thereafter semi detention till to date where she claim that she has not had freedom to seek legal action until recent times and even scared to come forward to file this case and the Corpus (Rohana Wijeweera) is the father of her six children.

The petitioner named Major General Janaka Perera, Captain Gamini Hettiarachchi, Lieutenant Karunarathna,Colonel Lionel Balagalle, Major General Hamilton Wanasinghe, Major General Cecil Waidyaratne, former Defence Minister General Ranajan Wijerathne, former Secretary of Defense General Cyril Ranatunga and Attorney General as respondents.

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