Law that was blindfolded- Article by Basil Fernando.-Published on June 10,2016.

Law that was blindfolded JUN 10 2016 DailyNews. Features by: Basil Fernando Journalist, Poddala Jayantha in a moving article, written in Sinhala, recalls his ordeal which took place exactly seven years ago in the evening of June 1st that shocked the entire nation. A threat which has been made to him by powerful personalities of the previous regime. He was picked up at Embuludeniya junction by a group of people who had arrived in a white van, and was severely beaten up. He recalls about being beaten about hundred times on his head, chest, lower abdomen and then being put inside the van which was in fact a mobile torture chamber. He was blindfolded and his hands were tied behind his back, they shaved his beard and hair, and put his hair inside his mouth, they have also severely beaten him up, broken the fingers of both his hands and then tried to break both his legs. They had inserted a wooden pole beneath his legs on which they broke his left leg and also caused severe injuries to the other leg. Then with the hair still inside his mouth they had tied his mouth with his hair inside and then threw him out of the moving van into a ditch and left him near the Angoda hospital road near a shrub jungle. It was a driver of a passing by three wheeler, who saw his body and then brought several other three wheeler drivers who have been kind enough to take him to a hospital. He recalls with gratitude those brave people who despite of the terror ridden times came to save his life.