e-news suspended
Mahanama VITHANAGE -Malwana Group Corr.
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Shantha Wijesooriya was further remanded till May 12 |
Pugoda magistrate and Additional District Judge Aravinda Perera
yesterday ordered the Telecommunication Regulatory Commission to suspend
the operation of the e-news website till the judicial proceedings now
being conducted against mediaman Shantha Wijesooriya for publishing an
article amounting to contempt of Court in the said website, are
completed. The magistrate also ordered that mediaman Shantha Wijesooriya
be further remanded till May 12.
The Court had ordered the Kirindiwela Police OIC to arrest and
produce before Court Wijesooriya for publishing an article in the
website defamatory of the judiciary with regard to a case now before the
court in connection with the death of a 47-year-old bachelor Amarasinghe
Arachchige David, a resident of Siyambalagahawatte in Pepiliyawala while
he was in Kirindiwela Police custody. |
