Fort Magistrate releases Ananda Palitha and Sanjeewa Dhammika

COLOMBO (News1st) - Fort Magistrate Thilina Gamage today ordered the release of media spokesperson of the Samagi Trade Unions Collective Ananda Palitha and Chairman of the Electricity Consumers' Association Sanjeewa Dhammika, on two personal bails of Rs. 500,000 each.

They were released pertaining to the case filed against two members of the Public Utilities Commission, Mohan Samaranayake and Udeni Wickramasinghe, under the charges of criminal coercion and intimidation in the elevator of the building where the commission is located.

Colpetty Police has filed two separate cases against the suspects. 

Sanjeewa Dhammika who is named as a third suspect in the case was identified by Mohan Samaranayake who is named a witness in the case during an identification parade that was held in the presence of Colombo Additional Magistrate Kingsley Hettiarachchi today. 

Thereafter the magistrate ordered the police to conduct further investigations into the matter and to direct the investigation files to court on the 27th of April.