Abdul Kareem Nazeer vs The Hon. Attorney General – 274/2009-2016

In the case between the Hon. Attorney General, Attorney General’s Department, Colombo 12 (Complainant/Respondent) and Mohamed Farook Abusally, also known as Abdul Kareem Nazeer (Accused-Appellant), the court addressed the issue of whether an appeal against the conviction and sentence—issued in absentia—was filed within the period permitted by law and whether such an appeal was maintainable under section 241(3) of the Code of Criminal Procedure Act. The court determined that the petition of appeal was not properly constituted, was out of time, and that no statutory right of appeal existed against an order made under section 241(3) of the CPC. It was further concluded that procedural objections concerning allocutus and identification irregularities did not render the conviction or sentence i