Sakvithi gets two years’ RI for bigamy

Jayantha de Silva

Chandana Weerakumara alias Sakvithi Ranasinghe, head of the defunct Sakvithi Constructions, in remand custody for defrauding depositors over Rs 100 million, was sentenced to a term of two years’ rigorous imprisonment and fined Rs 25,000 by High Court Judge Vimal Nambuwansa in a bigamy case filed by his wife yesterday.

The accused at the outset pleaded guilty. Complainant Subashini de Silva lodged a complaint that her husband Sakvithi Ranasinghe had married Anuradika Kumari without annulling his marriage to the complainant. Sakvithi had come to know Kumari, also in custody, as a pupil in one of his islandwide English classes. State Counsel Janaki Wekadapola prosecuted.