Among the murder cases in Sri Lanka, the Satasivam murder case that happened in 1951 is a major case in terms of horror and brutality. A woman was strangled to death in broad daylight in Mr. Sathasivam's house "Jayamangala" in a very densely populated area like Colombo. But the peculiarity here is that no one has been punished for this crime. Despite the investigations of the then Inspector General of Sri Lanka Police, Sir Richard Aluvihare, and renowned forensic medicine doctors, Professor Sidney Smith, a forensic doctor with an international reputation, the evidence was conflicting so that the criminal could not be caught. E. who was the judge of the Western Province High Court for a period of fifty-five days after a preliminary hearing in the Magistrate's Court. F. N. The case was tried before a special jury chaired by Grayson. The prosecution was led by the government advocate Mr. Samuel Fernando and the well-known advocate Colvin represented the accused cricketer Sathasivam. 
 
Mr. R de Silva. The woman here is Regina Sathasivam, the wife of Mahadevan Sathasivam, who was the captain of the Sri Lankan cricket team. She was the granddaughter of Mr. Ponnambalam Ramanathan and a woman who inherited a large amount of property. However, the peace of the Satasivam family was disturbed. Once Mrs. Sathasivam had filed a case for divorce, although it was settled with the intervention of her parents, she had filed a case for divorce. The proximate causes were Mr. Sathasivam's love affair with Yvonne Stephan, a Bugger woman, who he secretly ran and neglected her as well as the children. Mr. Sathasivam lived outside the house and according to the testimony of Podihami, who worked as a domestic worker for some time, Ms. Sathasivam received a summons for the divorce case the day before the murder, so that she could withdraw it. Arrives home at around 10.30 am and leaves the next day at around 10.30 am. Due to this, the police mainly suspected Mr. Sathasivam and arrested him on suspicion. Meanwhile, before the murder at the Jayamangala house, William, an 18-year-old youth who came to work 10 days ago, as well as Mrs. Sathasivam's seven-pound gold necklace called Thalikod, and other gold items and money disappeared. A few days later, according to a tip-off received by the police, he was arrested by the Matara police on suspicion of the murder of Mrs. Satasivam while working in a field in the Hungama area of ​​Tissamaharama. 
 
However, the then Attorney General Mr. Hema Henry Basnayake gave evidence against Mr. Sathasivam after granting conditional pardon to Hewamarambage William under section 284 of the Criminal Procedure Code and making him a state witness. Giving evidence, William stated that Mr. Sathasivam had an affair with his wife and then asked her to assist him in killing her. and put. After that, they took off her necklace and other gold ornaments and took money from her purse for her help and not telling the police. It was further said that the two then got together and carried her through the kitchen to the garage. William said that the incident happened at around 9.30 am. But due to the skillful cross-examination of Mr. Colvin.R de Silva and according to the eleven thousand internal injuries and ten external injuries found by Professor Seram who conducted the autopsy at the University of Peradeniya, the evidence was contradictory. His opinion was that death was caused by strangulation from behind while she was standing. 
 
Also after death, taking into consideration the amount of body temperature decrease per hour, the time taken for the body to 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
stiffen, the time taken for digestion of the food in her stomach and the distance traveled along the small intestine, Mrs. Satasivam died between 10.30 and 11.00 am. He testified before the honorable court. And that fact was also confirmed by Professor Smith. According to the testimony of Podihami, who worked at the house, Mr. Sathasivam said that he left the house at around 10.30 that morning by a Kiwikshaw taxi, and according to the taxi driver's testimony, he left the house at around 10.30 in the morning and Mrs. Sathasivam came and waited for him to board the taxi. .
 
 After hearing all the evidence, the jury found that Mr. Sathasivam had left the house before the murder. Accordingly, the jury unanimously decided to acquit Mahadevan Sathasivam, who was on remand for 20 weeks, of murder under section 294 of the Penal Code against the murder of his wife. William was also acquitted because he was a government witness. Several people were sentenced for perjury in this case. In the end, according to the court, there was no one who killed Mrs. Sathasivam due to conflicting evidence. As she fell to the ground where she was killed, the mortar from the kitchen was on her head, so it became popularly known that "a mortar kills".