Man issued death threats on Prez, PM remanded till Dec.15

8 December 2016 01:20 pm

A 26-year-old man was today remanded till December 15 on charges of having posted on Facebook an audio recording containing death threats to the President, Prime Minister and Opposition Leader.

The CID produced the suspect, Dinush Chamara, a resident of Rathgama, before Colombo Chief Magistrate Gihan Pilapitiya and informed him that the suspect was the administrator of a Facebook page named 'Sokarina' and had posted on his page an audio recording titled, "End of Maithripala will be soon by a Sinhala Buddhist, says an official attached to the President's Security Division".

The CID said its investigations revealed that the recording contained death threats on the VVIPs and the person speaking in the recording also invited people to assassinate the President, the Prime Minister and the Opposition Leader.

Counsel Inoka Seneviratne appeared for the suspect. (Shehan Chamika Silva)

 

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