{"id":228,"date":"2020-03-18T12:51:50","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T12:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rightscaselaw.ibj.org\/?page_id=228"},"modified":"2020-03-18T12:51:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T12:51:51","slug":"lucas-appuhamy-v-maturata-and-others","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rightscaselaw.ibj.org\/?page_id=228","title":{"rendered":"Lucas Appuhamy v. Maturata and others"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Case Reference\/File No<\/strong> <\/td>[1994] 1 SriLR 401 <\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Case Name<\/strong> <\/td>Lucas Appuhamy v. Maturata and others <\/strong> <\/td><\/tr>
Court <\/strong> <\/td>Supreme Court <\/strong> <\/td><\/tr>
Date of judgement<\/strong> <\/td>11th<\/sup> Nov 1994<\/strong> <\/td><\/tr>
Judges<\/strong> <\/td>Fernando J
Amerasinghe J
Dheeraratne J <\/strong> <\/td><\/tr>
Parties<\/strong> <\/td>Petitioners<\/strong>
Lucas Appuhamy

Vs

Respondents<\/strong>

1. OIC of the Police Station
2. a police officer
4th<\/sup>, 5th<\/sup> and 6th<\/sup> respondents \u2013 police officers who arrested the petitioner <\/td><\/tr>
Keywords<\/strong> <\/td>Fundamental rights \u2013 Articles 11 and 13(1) of the Constitution \u2013 arrest and torture <\/strong> <\/td><\/tr>
Head note<\/strong> <\/td>\n  \n <\/td><\/tr>
Brief facts<\/strong> <\/td>On 22nd<\/sup> Feb 1994, the intoxicated petitioner was provoked on a bus assaulted the 3rd<\/sup> respondent. Later the petitioner was arrested on a complaint made by the 3rd<\/sup> respondent.

The Court held that there was sufficient basis for the arrest and such arrest was not violating Article 13 (1) of the Constitution since the arrest was done according to the legal proceedings as per the Code of Criminal Procedure Act. Additionally, considering the incompatibilities between the medical evidence and the petitioner\u2019s version, the court held that there was no violation of fundamental rights as alleged by the petitioner. <\/td><\/tr>
Judicial Precedence<\/strong> <\/td>\n  \n <\/td><\/tr>
Legislation Title<\/strong> <\/td>The Constitution of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka 1978 <\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Area<\/strong> <\/td>Articles 11 and 13(1) of the Constitution <\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Case Reference\/File No [1994] 1 SriLR 401 Case Name Lucas Appuhamy v. Maturata and others Court Supreme Court Date of judgement 11th Nov 1994 Judges Fernando J Amerasinghe J Dheeraratne J Parties PetitionersLucas Appuhamy Vs Respondents 1. OIC of the Police Station 2. a police officer 4th, 5th and 6th respondents \u2013 police officers who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":0,"parent":198,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-228","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightscaselaw.ibj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightscaselaw.ibj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightscaselaw.ibj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightscaselaw.ibj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightscaselaw.ibj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rightscaselaw.ibj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"https:\/\/rightscaselaw.ibj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/228\/revisions\/230"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightscaselaw.ibj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightscaselaw.ibj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}