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17. Interference with and influencing investigations, and failure to record or refusal to provide information

Official English translation. Where it differs from the Sinhala or Tamil text, the Act itself says which text prevails.

(1)

any person, including a person suspected of having committed an offence under sections 3 or 4 of this

Act, who -

(a)

interferes with the conduct of an investigation;

(b)

influences the progress of an investigation by means of pressure or acts of intimidation or reprisal aimed at the complainant, witnesses, relatives of the disappeared person or their attorney-at-law or persons participating in the investigation;

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(c)

being the officer responsible for the official register, intentionally fails to record the deprivation of liberty of any person, or records any information which he knew to be inaccurate;

(d)

refuses to provide information on the deprivation of liberty of a person, or provides inaccurate information, notwithstanding the fact that legal requirements for providing such information have been met, shall be guilty of an offence under this Act.

(2)

A person guilty of an offence under subsection (1)

shall after conviction after trial on indictment by the High

Court, be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven years and to a fine not exceeding five hundred thousand rupees.

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