Siri Perera | |
Honorific-Suffix: | QC |
Birth Date: | February 1910 |
Birth Place: | Sri Lanka |
Death Date: | 1995 (aged 85) |
Nationality: | Sri Lankan |
Other Names: | U.A.S. Perera "Siri Aiya" of Radio Ceylon |
Known For: | Poetry |
Education: | Nalanda College Colombo |
Occupation: | Lawyer |
Siri Perera QC (February 1910 - 1995) was a Criminal lawyer, a Buddhist leader who was one time the President of the Colombo YMBA. He was also a former Sri Lanka High Commissioner to India.[1]
Perera was educated at Nalanda College Colombo. He was also a member of the teaching staff at Nalanda. He was also a graduate of Sri Lanka Law College. He obtained a First Class in the Final Examination and was enrolled as an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka in March 1933.[2]
In Perera's career as a criminal lawyer he appeared for some well known cases such as Galle Face flats murder case, Turf Club robbery and murder case, Matara Police Station murder case and Dematagoda acid bath murder case.[3]