17-year-old detainee commits suicide at Pettah Police Station
Posted by Editor on January 11, 2018 - 8:05 am
A 17-year-old detainee has committed suicide at the Pettah Police Station by hanging himself inside a cell.
Police said the teenager was arrested with a stock of cannabis last night (10) at Bastian Mawatha in Pettah.
The suspect, a resident of Kirimanagama in Haputale, had allegedly used his own clothes as a noose to hang himself inside the cell he was locked-up in.
The body of the teen has been placed at the Colombo National Hospital while investigations have been launched into the incident under the instructions of an ASP.
(Ada Derana)
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stock from haputale and to hang himself with what he was wearing. it is tricky to re-enact the scene considering th nature of police cels that are genera;; not big enough to move around! further cannabis sounds so dramatic. gana should be legalised. in the us the federal policy is that it is banned but severl states has legalised on various pretexts. in holland it is legal and the eu is considering the legalising in the union.
in a totalitarian system there are no problem with narcotics for the law is harsh with summary executions. in a democracy particular in bankrupt economies it is means of gerating revenue. a prime examp;e is in afganistan where poppy cultivation exceeds potato cultivation.
sri lanka should legalise cannabis.in marginal lands and should run a program to promote ganja somink and the tourst board should promote it to tap dollars.