Rasingolle Weerasinghe Mudiyanselage Nandana Senarath Bandara alias Chandi and Rasingolle Weerasinghe Mudiyanselage Kalubanda v. Hon. Attorney General – CA 251/2007-2007

In the case between the Hon. Attorney General, Attorney General’s Department, Colombo 12 (Plaintiff/Respondent) and Rasingolle Weerasinghe Mudiyanselage Nandana Senarath Bandara alias Chandi and Rasingolle Weerasinghe Mudiyanselage Kalubanda (Defendants/Appellants), the court addressed the sufficiency of evidence for conviction on charges of murder and attempted murder, and the propriety of the conviction and sentence imposed upon the 1st Accused. The court held that the evidence, which included direct eyewitness testimony from the injured party, was adequate to sustain the conviction and that the High Court judge correctly evaluated the evidence and imposed an appropriate sentence. The principle reaffirmed was that appellate intervention is unwarranted unless findings are shown to be perv