10th Parliament· 154 sittings on record · 30,475 speeches · latest 10 June 2026

The Hon. Kabir Hashim

Samagi Jana Balawegaya· Kegalle· 9 September 2025 ·Debate: Debate: Agreement between Sri Lanka and the United Arab Emirates (Continued)

Law & OrderJustice & Human Rights
AI summary generated by gpt-5.5

Kabir Hashim questioned the circumstances under which individuals arrested after an incident involving police conduct were granted bail the following Saturday. He asked whether the Government intervened, noting that one woman involved was hospitalized and asserting that bail is normally not granted to hospitalized persons or on Saturdays.

Verbatim record (translated)

Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English

¶ 01 Hon. Deputy Minister, thank you for your answer. I raise this because of what happened that day: if you saw how the police behaved, insulting people in front of them, and how they in turn insulted even the police. Those arrested were granted bail the next day, on Saturday. The woman involved was in hospital at the time. First, when someone is hospitalized, bail is not given. Second, bail is not given on a Saturday. So how did that happen? Did the Government intervene to give bail? That is my question.

Provenance

Source
Hansard, Tuesday, 9 September 2025 ·No. 1757672711095734 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
Page · column
not yet extracted — page/column anchors are not in the current dataset; the source PDF is the citable location.
Permalink
/lk/speeches/9754

Cite as: The Hon. Kabir Hashim. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 9 September 2025. No. 1757672711095734. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/9754