Amarasinghe Kankanamlage Kamal Rasika Amarasinghe vs. Officer-in-Charge, Special Investigation Unit, Police Headquarters, Colombo 01 – SC APPEAL NO. 140/2010-2010

Brief
In the case between the Officer-in-Charge, Special Investigation Unit, Police Headquarters, Colombo 01, and the Attorney General’s Department versus Amarasinghe Kankanamlage Kamal Rasika Amarasinghe, the Supreme Court addressed whether contradictions and omissions in the prosecution’s evidence, the alleged duplicity in the charge sheet, and the sufficiency of medical evidence warranted overturning a conviction under Section 314 of the Penal Code. The court determined that the identified evidentiary contradictions and charge defects were not materially prejudicial to the prosecution’s case. It was established that objections regarding the charge sheet were not raised at trial, and that the medical evidence was consistent with the witness testimony. The findings relied on established l