Srilanka, Feb. 25 -- The Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) yesterday announced that extrajudicial killings could never be a solution to addressing the rise in criminal activity and that crime could be best curbed when the State adhered to the rule of law.

The BASL is urging the Acting Inspector General of Police to promptly initiate an impartial inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the deaths of the two individuals at the hands of the Police and to take all necessary steps to prevent similar incidents of encounter killings and custodial deaths in the future.

Issuing a statement regarding the killing of two suspects while in police custody and killing of a suspect inside a courtroom, the BASL strongly reiterated the need for the...