The Court of Appeal is to deliver its judgement today regarding the appeal petitions filed by former Secretary to the President Lalith Weeratunga and former Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (TRC) Director General Anusha Palpita who challenged the Colombo High Court’s judgment to convict them regarding the Sil Redi distribution case.
The judgment in the appeal is to be delivered at 10 a.m. today by a Court of Appeal two-judge-Bench comprising Justice Kumuduni Wickremasinghe and Justice Devika Abeyratne.
On September 7, 2017, former Secretary to the President Lalith Weeratunga and former TRC Director General Anusha Palpita were found guilty of allegedly misappropriating Rs.600 million in funds belonging to TRC over the Sil Redi (Fabrics used by devotees to observe Sil) distribution case.
They had been sentenced to three-years-Rigorous Imprisonment by the Colombo High Court. Through their appeal applications, the two accused-appellants stated that they were seeking the jurisdiction of the Court of Appeal to review and set aside their conviction imposed by the High Court dated September 7, 2017.
