The Supreme Court today (06) given leave to proceed with the appeals submitted by the offenders who were offered the capital punishment over the 2015 kidnapping, gang rape and murder of schoolgirl Sivaloganathan Vidya, seeking their acquittal from the charges and their sentences.Accordingly, the appeals were bought to be taken up for factor to consider on August 25, 2025.
This order was released when the case was taken up before the three-member Supreme Court judge bench consisting of Justices Preethi Padman Surasena, Janak de Silva and Sampath Abeykoon today (Feb.
06).
On September 27, 2017, the Jaffna High Court, which heard the case submitted over the kidnapping, gang rape and murder of 18-year-old schoolgirl Sivaloganathan Vidya, gave the death penalty to the 07 implicated consisting of the chief suspect in the case Swiss Kumar.Delivering the much-anticipated verdict after the widely publicised trial came to an end, the three-member judge bench had actually sentenced the 07 suspects to death and likewise purchased them to pay Rs.
1 million as payment to the victims family.In addition to the death penalty, the suspects were likewise sentenced to an even more 30 years in prison.Sivaloganathan Vidya, an 18-year-old schoolgirl from Punkudutivu, was abducted, gang-raped and murdered in Jaffna, while returning home from school on May 13, 2015.
However, the appealing celebration has actually sought an order from the Supreme Court declaring that the appropriate sentences have actually been enforced in infraction of the law and looking for to acquit them of the charges.