Central Bank officer S.Pathmanathan filing a fundamental rights petition has sought the Supreme Court to prevent him from being questioned by Attorney General’s Department officers assisting the Bond Commission and sought an order from the Court not to interdict him or serve charge sheets on him until the final determination of his petition.
In his FR petition, he stated that during the inquiry he had been subjected to threats, intimidation, duress, harassment, humiliating treatment and unlawful invasion of privacy at the hands of the officials of the Attorney General’s Department during interrogations namely Senior Additional Solicitor General, Additional Solicitor General and Deputy Solicitor General Milinda Gunatilleke. He laments that he had been subjected to the said humiliations amounting to cruel inhuman and degrading treatment and punishment. Further,he alleges that during the inquiry, he had been subjected to threats, intimidation, duress, harassment, humiliating treatment and unlawful invasion of privacy at the hands of the officials of the Attorney General’s Department during interrogations namely Senior Additional Solicitor General, Additional Solicitor General and Deputy Solicitor General Milinda Gunatilleke.
He alleges the actions of the respondents amount to an infringement and imminent infringement of his fundamental right to the freedom from torture, freedom from arbitrary arrest, freedom of lawful occupation and profession as well as consultative jurisdiction.
