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| Judge reprimands CID : cannot punish on an imagined offence- journalists released -Pass the information to LeN is the offence |
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 (Lanka-e-News-30.June.2012, 11.30PM) The journalists of the website who were arrested by the CID yesterday (29) were produced before the acting Magistrate Kosala Senadheera, Colombo court no 8 today. The main charge against those arrested was , the office that was running the websites , Sri Lanka mirror and Lanka x news were transmitting news to the Lanka e news website, and those news could create room to defame the President and incite the people. These charges were filed under section , 115, 118 and 120. When the Magistrate inquired from the CID whether such wrongs have been committed , the CID said , there was room to commit such offences.
The Magistrate had pointed out , actually committing and may commit are two different things , and punishment cannot be committed for a wrong that may be committed. He had also reprimanded the CID , and ordered the police to release the journalists arrested on suitable police bail .
The police was also ordered to produce the computers taken into custody at the next court date on 6th July.
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Attorneys at law including Saliya Peiris, Upul and Manjula Pathiraja appeared for the journalists, while Mangala Samaraweera M P and Daya Gamage, media organization leaders were also present in court.
Lanka e news revealed that the journalists were in the ready yesterday to explain to the CID in court , that it is the constitution and not the penal code which is fundamental.
Meanwhile Lanka e news is in receipt of information that the CID has manipulated this operation to trap Ruwan Ferdinands .This was confirmed , when the CID chief had remarked after the arrested journalists were brought to the CID , ‘it is useless bringing the fowls without the fox’.
The main question that was posed to the arrested journalists by the CID was, whether they are conveying information to Lanka e news. |
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