A petition filed by the parentsof a deceased Tamil prisoner demanding his funeral to be heldat their native place was postponed to July 20 by the SriLankan Supreme Court today.
Ganesan Nimalaruban a prison inmate in Vavuniya jailin northern Sri Lanka was injured late last month as wereseveral other LTTE suspects when the prisoners took hostagethreeprison guards. He died later.
The case would now be heard on July 20, lawyers said.
Nimalaruban's parents had sought the overturning of alower court order which said, funeral must be held in Colombo,outside his native Vavuniya town.
The state attorneys argued that holding the funeral inVavuniya may endanger peace and could be used by some elementsto create civil disturbance.
The Vavuniya jail was temporarily shut on June 29after LTTE suspects had taken three prison guards hostage.
A joint military and police operation had ended thesiege which came after prisoners rioted for several days.
The inmates were later transferred to the Ragamaprison, north Colombo where the Tamil human rights campaignersclaimed that Nimalaruban and other Tamil prisoners had comeunderattack.
However the prison authorities said he had died of aheart attack.