Actor convicted of assaulting paramour's husband

Ranjith PADMASIRI

COLOMBO: Kaduwela Magistrate Champa Janaki Rajaratne convicted actor Roger Seneviratne of assaulting and causing grievous hurt to his paramour's husband.

The victim is a businessman.

The sentence will be imposed on June 22.

Attorneys-at-Law Nalin Ladduwahetty, U.L.G. Bandara and Namal Perera led the prosecution.

During the proceedings, it was pointed out that the plaintiff had suffered serious damage to his limbs. It was revealed that during the shooting of a teledrama at the plaintiff's residence, the accused had started a friendship with the plaintiff's wife.

Later, the plaintiff's wife had left her husband and continued to live with the accused at a house at Kalalgoda.

When the plaintiff visited his wife and requested her to return as their two daughters had come from New Zealand, she had turn down his request. On his way back, the accused allegedly assaulted the plaintiff with an iron bar.

Meanwhile, in the case filed against the plaintiff for causing minor injuries to his wife, the Judge acquitted the suspect plaintiff.