A recommendation for legal action against former state minister Lohan Ratwatte over his questionable visits to two prisons during the Gotabaya Rajapaksa regime is yet to be enforced.
His prosecution was recommended by retired judge Sarojani Kusala Weerawardena in her report handed over to the then prisons minister Ali Sabri in November 2021.
A copy of the report was made available to the Society for Peace and Religion a year after a request was made under the right to information act in June 2022.
In her report of inquiry, Weerawardena found Ratwatte to be punishable under the Penal Code for ordering 10 Tamil inmates at Anuradhapura Prison to kneel down and aiming a pistol at two of them.
Presently an MP, Ratwatte was also an accused in the murder of 10 Muslim youths at Udatalawinna in December 2001 and the gunning down of Fijian rugby coach Joel Prera.
Very close to the Rajapaksas, the son of former state defence minister Anuruddha Ratwatte is also closely related to ex-president Chandrika Kumaratunga.
His younger brother Chanuka is the managing director of Entrust Securities that has been accused of misappropriating Rs. 4,200 million of state money.
