Court dismisses appeal against suspended sentence for illegal handling of Sri Lankan family reunion applications.

The Supreme Court dismissed the defendant's appeal regarding a suspended four-month prison sentence for mishandling Sri Lankan family reunion applications between 1987 and 1989. The defendant argued that the administrative errors were minor and did not warrant criminal punishment, while the prosecution maintained that the procedural violations constituted a breach of the Alien Act. The court upheld the conviction, ruling that the systematic failure to process applications according to law justified the criminal sanction despite the suspended nature of the penalty.