(UTV | COLOMBO) – Former politician Duminda Silva has been granted a Presidential pardon.
The Department of Prisons stated that it had received the documentation from the President’s Office to free Duminda on a Presidential pardon.
As a result Duminda was set free today (24) on a Presidential pardon.
Duminda was convicted over the murder of Presidential Advisor Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra in 2011.