Muthuthanthrige Ranil Prasanna Muthuthanthri Vs. Head Quarters – Inspector Police Station Bakamuna and others – CA BAL/64/2021-2021

In the case between Muthuthanthrige Ranil Prasanna Muthuthanthri (Suspect-Petitioner) and the Head Quarters – Inspector, Police Station, Bakamuna, and Attorney General (Complainant-Respondent and Respondent), the court addressed the issue of whether bail should be granted under the Bail Act and Section 10(1)(a) of the Assistance to and Protection of Victims of Crime and Witnesses Act No. 4 of 2015, in circumstances where the suspect was accused of threatening the father of a victim in a gang rape case. The findings established that, due to protracted prosecutorial delays including failure to serve IB Extracts and absence of a fixed trial date, exceptional circumstances existed sufficient to justify the grant of bail, especially as other related suspects had already been granted bail withou