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Lamahewa acquitted from 2012 prison riot case

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The Supreme Court today (Aug. 08) ordered to acquit former Prisons Commissioner Emil Ranjan Lamahewa, who was previously sentenced to death by the Colombo High Court Trial-at-Bar over the killing of 08 inmates during the 2012 Welikada Prison riot.

The decision was delivered by a panel of five judges of the Supreme Court after accepting an appeal filed on behalf of Lamahewa against the sentence.

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