CAT/C/68/D/746/2016 United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Distr.: General 3 January 2020 Original: English Committee against Torture Decision adopted by the Committee under article 22 of the Convention, concerning communication No. 746/2016*, ** Communication submitted by: Parasuraman Parameswara (represented by counsel, John Sweeney) Alleged victim: The complainant State party: Australia Date of complaint: 26 April 2016 (initial submission) Substantive issue: Risk of torture and ill-treatment upon deportation to Sri Lanka At its meeting on 15 November 2019, the Committee, not having received comments from the complainant’s counsel on the State party’s observations, despite sending three reminders to that effect, followed by the withdrawal of the complaint, as the complainant had been returned to Sri Lanka, decided to discontinue the examination of communication No. 746/2016. * Adopted by the Committee at its sixty-eighth session (11 November–6 December 2019). ** The following members of the Committee participated in the examination of the communication: Essadia Belmir, Felice Gaer, Abdelwahab Hani, Claude Heller Rouassant, Jens Modvig, Ana Racu, Diego Rodríguez-Pinzón, Sébastien Touzé and Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov. GE.20-00040(E) 

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