Ranjan Ramanayake, who pleaded guilty to the second charge of contempt of court, was sentenced by the Supreme Court to two years imprisonment with hard labor and suspended for five years.
Buwaneka Aluvihare, L. T. B. The order was passed by a three-judge bench comprising Justices Dehideniya and Gamini Amarasekera.
The Registrar of Courts had filed the complaint alleging that Ranjan Ramanayake's remarks on a television program on the five-judge bench hearing the fundamental rights petitions challenging the decision of then President Maithripala Sirisena to dissolve Parliament in 2018 had insulted the judiciary.
Ranjan Ramanayake first pleaded not guilty to these charges in the Supreme Court.
However, when the case was taken up in March, Ranjan Ramanayake pleaded guilty to the charges.
Accordingly, the lawyers representing him had requested the court to impose a lenient sentence on him.
Announcing the verdict today (07), the three-judge bench headed by Justice Buwaneka Aluvihare sentenced Ranjan Ramanayake to two years imprisonment with hard labor and suspended for five years.
Accordingly, if convicted of another offense within five years from today, this two year imprisonment will be effective, explained the three-judge bench comprising Judge Buwaneka Aluvihare to Ranjan Ramanayake in open court.
The judge further explained to Ramanayake that if he is not found guilty of any other offense within a period of five years from today, he will not be punished under the Criminal Procedure Code.
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