Three people accused of abducting and assaulting a person in 2013 were acquitted and discharged of all charges by Colombo High Court Judge Wikum Kaluarachchi recently.
The acquittal followed an appeal to the Colombo High Court by the three accused against the judgement delivered by the Magistrate’s Court of Mount Lavinia on February 20, 2019, which convicted all three accused of abducting and causing hurt to a person in 2013. Ms. Elisha Fernando appeared for the accused appellants and this was her first case in a High Court since taking oaths in February last year.
Fernando (27) has completed her LL.B at General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University and is reading for her M.Sc in Security and Strategic Studies at the same University and also her LL.M in Criminal Justice Administration at the Open University.