Wimal further restrained

Sandasen MARASINGHE

Colombo Commercial High Court Judge Gamini Amarasekara yesterday issued an interim injunction preventing National Freedom Front Leader Wimal Weerawansa from publishing and distributing his book Netta Venuwata Etta.

The court issued the order after Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna leader Somawansa Amarasinghe and its Secretary Tilvin Silva filed two separate cases before the Commercial High Court alleging that the Intellectual Property Act has been violated by the act of publishing the book Netta Venuwata Etta. The two plaintiffs filing the plaint cited Wimal Weerawansa as the defendant. The plaintiffs stated before the Court that the book by Wimal Weerawansa was nothing but JVP political opinion that was submitted before the JVP Central Committee. The book had no classical or aesthetic value. So this publication is a violation of economic rights as well, they said.

The Court earlier had issued an enjoining order restraining the publishing of this book and Court yesterday issued the interim order. The case was put off for July 9.