Highest amount of compensation ever paid in FR case: Those affected by Easter Sunday carnage receive Rs. 310 million

Over 310 mn had been paid to five categories of the 2019 Easter Sunday victims according to a detailed report submitted by the Office of Reparations to the Supreme Court (SC) when the relevant Fundamental Rights cases were mentioned before Chief Justice Murdu Fernando, PC, Justice S. Thurairajah PC, and Justice A.H.M.D. Nawaz recently.

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His Eminence Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith, the Archbishop of Colombo, the 57th Respondent in the SC FR 195/2019, was represented by Shammil J. Perera, PC, and Duthika Perera at these proceedings on the instructions of Gamini Senanayake.

During the proceedings, the Office for Reparations presented a detailed report to all parties setting out the details of payments made to the victims through the Fund which received altogether Rs. 311 mn as compensation paid by the respondents in these Fundamental Rights cases.

Former President Maithripala Sirisena paid the highest compensation amounting to Rs 100 mn to the Fund.