CBNsat settlement pending - Counsel for CBNsat
Sandasen Marasinghe
COLOMBO: Colombo Additional Magistrate Gihan Pilapitiya yesterday put
off the CBN Sat case to January 19 when President's Counsel M. L. M.
Ameen appearing for the CBN Sat submitted that the Superior Court
suggested a settlement and the settlement was pending.
President's Counsel Hemantha Warnakulasuriya appearing for Sri Lanka
Rupavahini Corporation, Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation and Media
Minister submitted that the Criminal Investigation Department had
conducted investigations against those television channels.
If the Attorney General was satisfied that the act of those channels
was deemed to be a crime under the Rupavahini Act they would file
plaints against all the accused. Senior State Counsel Gihan Kulathunga
appearing for the prosecution submitted that the CID had conducted the
investigations and if the CBNsat could not come to a settlement they
were filing the plaint.
The CID initiated the investigations when it found that several
television channels were functioning without proper licence.
President's Counsel Hemantha Warnakulasuriya with Kalinga Pasquel and
Inoka Gamage appeared for the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation, Sri
Lanka Broadcasting Corporation and Media Minister. Senior State Counsel
Gihan Kulathunga appeared for the prosecution while President's Counsel
M. L. M. Ameen appeared for CBNsat.
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