Mahinda sends letters of demand to Anura Kumara, Nalin Bandara, Ranjan Ramanayake and Sunil Perera.
It is reported that Attorney at law Sagara Kariyawasam has on the instructions of his client
former president Mahinda Rajapaksa had sent letters of demand to the leader of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, famous singer Sunil Perera former Members of Parliament of the United National party Nalin Bandara and Ranjan Ramanayake and popular singer Sunil Perera demanding huge sums of money for insulting his client in cases filed for defamation.The attorney at law Sagara Kariyawasam had conveyed this while addressing a meeting at the office of the opposition leader on yesterday the 26th instant
This decision had been taken by a group of senior Attorneys at law along with President’s counsels amounting to a group of 22 for defamatory statements made on the contesting of the former president Mahinda Rajapaksa by the above persons.
There had been many false allegations made against former president Mahinda Rajapaksa. They had made incorrect allegations in public that his civil rights be withdrawn as he had pilfered huge sums of money from projects, a sum of rupees 500 million ministry of Foreign affairs and that he has deposits in many foreign countries etc.
The letter of demand sent to Anura Kumara Dissanayake had been for a sum of rupees 10 million for making a statement in a newspaper headlines that through the presidential commission that Mahinda Rajapaksa’s civil rights should be stalled.
A sum of rupees one hundred million has been claimed from Ranjan Ramanayake though a letter of demand for insulting the former president Mahinda Rajapaksa.
For defamatory statements made against the former president Mahinda Rajapaksa in the television programme “Helidarauwwa” by former Member of Parliament Nalin Bandara a sum of rupees two hundred million has been claimed via the letter of demand.