Taxi driver's bid to remove LTTE as terror group filed out of time, says govt lawyer

August 6, 2020 3:59 PM

“The application should have been filed within 90 days after it was published in the government gazette in 2014,” Senior Federal Counsel Ahmad Hamir Hambaly said. However, lawyer Omar Kutty Abdul Aziz said there were no grounds to file action in 2014 as the arrest and prosecution of Balamurugan had only taken place late last year.

“My client is not the specific entity but the LTTE . He has every right to exhaust his legal avenues,” he said.Omar said the LTTE should be removed in the gazette notification as the minister had among others relied on newspaper reports between 1987 and 2009. In his case, the 37-year-old said the minister’s decision to declare the LTTE as a terrorist group was untenable as the Sri Lankan army had in even in 2009 declared the entity as a defunct organisation.

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