Sri Lanka, Sept. 3 -- Matale High Court Judge Ravindra Premaratne on Monday (1) sentenced a person convicted of a murder that occurred in a house in the Alagamuwa area of Thalagoda, Naula,Matale in 2012, to death.

The person sentenced to death was Pahalaaramapalagedara Punchi Banda (59), a resident of Alagamuwa, Naula-Thalagoda Junction. The Attorney General had filed indictments in 2013 against four defendants on charges of shooting dead a father of three named Koslandagedara Karunaratne, a resident of Alagamuwa, Thalagoda, Naula, Matale, on September 17, 2012.

The second and third defendants died during the trial, and the High Court judge ordered the fourth defendant to be acquitted of all charges. These defendants had come to the dec...