{"id":55048,"date":"2017-09-07T04:44:20","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T08:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=55048"},"modified":"2017-09-07T04:44:20","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T08:44:20","slug":"former-presidents-secretary-lalith-weeratunga-and-ex-d-g-of-trc-anusha-palpita-found-guity-in-sil-redi-case-sentenced-to-3-years-imprisonment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=55048","title":{"rendered":"Former Presidents Secretary Lalith Weeratunga and Ex- D-G of TRC Anusha Palpita Found Guity in &#8220;Sil Redi&#8221; Case Sentenced to  3 Years Imprisonment."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Former President Mahinda Rajapakse\u2019s Secretary Lalith Weeratunga and former Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (TRC) Director General Anusha Palpita were found guilty by the Colombo High Court in the \u2018sil redi\u2019 distribution case. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Colombo High Court sentenced the two men to 3 years Rigorous Imprisonment (RI) and imposed a fine of Rs. 2 million each on them, in addition asking them to a pay Rs. 50 million each to the TRC.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Colombo High Court Judge Gihan Kulatunga said Lalith Weeratunga and Anusha Palpita had been found guilty \u2018beyond reasonable doubt\u2019 on two counts in the case that saw the misappropriation of Rs. 600 million during the 2015 Presidential Election.<\/p>\n<p>Rs. 600 million belonging to the TRC was misappropriated in the run up to the 2015 Presidential Election between October 2014 and January 2015 and used to distribute \u2018sil redi\u2019 \u2013 fabric used by devotees to observe sil \u2013 to potential voters.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Asian Mirror<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton55048\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D55048&amp;text=Former%20Presidents%20Secretary%20Lalith%20Weeratunga%20and%20Ex-%20D-G%20of%20TRC%20Anusha%20Palpita%20Found%20Guity%20in%20%26%238220%3BSil...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Mahinda Rajapakse\u2019s Secretary Lalith Weeratunga and former Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (TRC) Director General Anusha Palpita were found guilty by the Colombo High Court in the \u2018sil redi\u2019 distribution case. The Colombo High Court sentenced the two men to 3 years Rigorous Imprisonment (RI) and imposed a fine of Rs. 2 million each on &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=55048\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Former Presidents Secretary Lalith Weeratunga and Ex- D-G of TRC Anusha Palpita Found Guity in &#8220;Sil Redi&#8221; Case Sentenced to  3 Years Imprisonment.&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55048"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55049,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55048\/revisions\/55049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}