A/HRC/22/45 Sri Lanka Number of outstanding cases at the beginning of the period under review 5,671 Cases transmitted to the Government during the period under review:13 Cases clarified during the period under review: 0 Cases sent under Cases sent the urgent action under the procedure standard procedure Government Non-governmental sources Number of outstanding cases at the end of the year under review 4 0 0 5,676k 9 Number of cases on which the Multiple replies on some cases Government has replied Number of cases of possible clarification by Government (6-month rule) 160 1 N/A Urgent appeal N/A Government response N/A General allegation Yes (2011) Government response No Prompt intervention letter Yes (2 – 29 December 2011, 1 March 2012) Government response No Working Group request for a visit Yes Invitation extended No Urgent actions 362. The Working Group transmitted four cases to the Government under its urgent action procedure. 363. The first two cases concerned Mr. Lalith Weeraraja, Jaffna coordinator of the Jana Aragalaya (People‘s Struggle) movement, and an executive committee member of We Are Sri Lankans, a student-based organisation which works to defend the rights of Tamil people in Sri Lanka; and Mr. Kugan Muruganandan, who were allegedly arrested by members of the Sri Lankan Army on 9 December 2011. 364. The third case concerned Mr. Ramasamy Prabaharan, a Tamil businessman of Indian origin, allegedly abducted by seven armed men in civilian clothing, believed to be security forces agents, on 11 February 2012. In a communication dated 5 April 2012, the Government acknowledged receipt of this urgent action. 365. The fourth case concerned Ms. Vasanthamala Pathmanathan, allegedly arrested at a bank near Vavuniya by agents of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Police on 21 August 2012. Standard procedure 366. The Working Group transmitted nine newly-reported cases to the Government. 367. The first case concerned Mr. Punyamoorthy Velusamy, a three-wheeler taxi driver who allegedly disappeared between his house and Horombuwa Junction, Suduwatuara Road on 1 March 2008. The police had reportedly previously been to Mr. Velusamy‘s house on several occasions and questioned him regarding whether he had received money from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam (LTTE). k During its ninety-sixth and ninety-eighth sessions, the Working Group discovered that six and two cases, respectively, were in fact duplicates of existing cases. These eight cases were subsequently eliminated from the Working Group‘s records. 99