Gnanasara Thero’s attorneys file appeal
June 15, 2018 01:06 pm
Attorneys representing Venerable Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thero have submitted an appeal challenging the verdict of the Homagama Magistrate’s Court.
The appeal has been filed with the Homagama Magistrate’s Court, to be forwarded to the High Court, requesting that the Thero be acquitted and released.
The General Secretary of the Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) organisation was sentenced to 6 months of rigorous imprisonment for threatening Sandya Ekneligoda within the Homagama court premises.
The sentence was delivered by the Homagama Chief Magistrate yesterday (14).
The Thero’s attorney Manjula Mahakumbura handed over the appeal to the Homagama Court today (15), seeking an order from the High Court to acquit and release his client from the sentence and to annul the verdict of the Homagama Magistrate’s Court.
Gnanasara Thero had verbally abused and threatened Sandya Eknaligoda at the Homagama Court on January 25, 2016.
Homagama Police filed a case against the Thero charging him with criminal harassment and criminal intimidation under the penal code.
The verdict in the case was delivered on May 24 and Gnanasara Thero was found guilty for both charges.
