66The Fort Justice of the Peace Thilina Gamage ordered yesterday (5) that veteran actress Damitha Abeyratne and her husband, who have been arrested and produced in Court docket by the Pc Crimes
Division, having been accused of defrauding an quantity of Rs. 3 million by saying that individuals could be despatched to Korea, and in addition since they’d dedicated offences beneath the Immigrants and Emigrants Act.
The Justice of the Peace rejected the bail request made by the panel of attorneys together with senior lawyer Ajith Pathirana, representing the 2 suspects, stating in Court docket that their shoppers had not dedicated the offences beneath the Immigrants and Emigrants Act, and ordered them to be remanded until April 17.
The Justice of the Peace mentioned that it isn’t potential to grant bail as by avoiding the Police on a number of events, as a substitute of showing in court docket on Wednesday, the day allotted to the Legal Investigation Division, it’s noticed that the court docket has been intentionally prevented by showing in court docket on Thursday, the day allotted to the Kollupitiya Police. The 2 suspects who have been arrested earlier than the court docket day earlier than yesterday (4) have been produced in court docket subsequent to recording their statements.
The couple had come to give up to court docket via their attorneys, day earlier than yesterday (4) and the attorneys and gone into the workplace of Fort Justice of the Peace Thilina Gamage and requested for permission to file the movement. Justice of the Peace of Thilina Gamage refused to just accept the movement paper contemplating that the instances associated to the Kollupitiya Police have been being heard on that day and it was not a day of the Legal Investigation Division.
Subhashini Senanayake
