Sri Lanka, Aug. 14 -- Former IGP Pujith Jayasundara and former Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando received death sentence on charges of abetting unlawful omission, Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Dileepa Peiris said.

Attending a ceremony held in Colombo, he further mentioned that the Attorney General's Department requested the death sentence against the defendants in relation to 855 charges related to abetting unlawful omission.

Expressing further views, the Additional Solicitor General said:

"New laws are made and new legal concepts emerge, but they exist in English.

Whether an ordinary citizen in Ampara knows that legal concept or whether the highest court in the country decided the remedy that can be taken if a fundamental righ...