Batticaloa High Court validates Pararajasingham murder confessions

<p>The Batticaloa High Court ruled last week that the confessions of the two main suspects in the murder of TNA MP Joseph Pararajasingham were made voluntarily and admissible in court.</p> <p>Judge M.Y.M. Irshadeen granted permission to the prosecution to produce the confessions of Rengasamy Kanaganayagam alias Kajan Mama and Edwin Silva Krishnanantharajah alias Pradeep Master.</p> <p>Lawyers for paramilitary leader and former Chief Minister of the Eastern Province Sivanesanthurai Chandrakanthan alias Pillayan, had refuted the confessions which linked Pillayan to the murder.</p> <p>TNA MP Joseph Pararajasingham was gunned down on Christmas Day in 2005 while attending a church service in Batticaloa.</p> <p>Pillayan, Kanaganayakam and Krishnanantharajah all remain in remand custody along with three other suspects.</p> <p><a href="http://www.sundaytimes.lk/190113/news/pararajasingham-murder-case-hc-ru…"><u>See more from the Sunday Times.</u></a></p>