Selvadurai Kirubakaran alias Ponnambalam Madhan vs The Attorney General – CA HCC/0460/17-2022

In the case between the Attorney General (representing the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka) and Selvadurai Kirubakaran alias Ponnambalam Madhan, the court addressed the sufficiency of circumstantial evidence required for the conviction of murder, illegal possession of a firearm, and ammunition. It was held that the combination of eyewitness testimony, corroborative circumstances, and physical evidence established guilt beyond reasonable doubt, reaffirming the principle that conviction may rest solely on circumstantial evidence if it admits of no reasonable alternative hypothesis. The findings relied upon legal standards governing circumstantial proof and the evaluation of dock statements, emphasizing that minor discrepancies in testimony do not nullify otherwise compelling evide