Caldera v. Liyanage and Others – sllr 2004 volume 3 page 262

In the case between the petitioner (injured party) and Liyanage and Others (comprising police officers and government entities), the court addressed the violation of the petitioner’s fundamental rights under Articles 11, 13, and 126 of the Constitution, arising from alleged police brutality, fabrication of evidence, and the reliability of certified police documents without comparison to originals. The court held that the petitioner’s rights were violated through cruel and inhuman treatment during and following a police response to a vehicular incident, establishing that uncorroborated and altered police documents lacked evidentiary reliability. This decision reaffirmed the principle that evidence derived from unverified or altered police records is not safe to accept and emphasized account