Thursday, June 15, 2006

Closure of CBNSat.....employees left in the lurch - Daily Mirror 15 June 2006

When the CBNSat was taken up for inquiry yesterday Colombo Additional Magistrate Gihan Pilapitiya ordered Rupavahini Corporation to submit an Investigation report to court within two days.

Senior State Counsel Gihan Kulatunge appearing for the CID informed the court appearing for the CID informed the court that the inquiries on LBN Netowrk (Pvt) Ltd.,, SatNet (Pvt) Ltd., Multivision (Pvt) Ltd., and Electrotech were continuing and the report on the findings would be submitted to Court once the investigations were completed. State Counsel also undertook to allow CBNSat to function if the Medi Ministry could consider issuing a license to CBNSat.

Senior Counsel M.L.M Ameen PC appearing for CBNSat asked Court to make an interim order to open the network. It claimed otherwise the employees of the company as well as 100,000 of their clientele would fave severe difficulties.

He said reopening the channel would not affect CID investigations. Counsel also brought to the notice of the magistrate that while CBNSat had been kept shutdown the other TV channels into which Court ordered investigations were functioning unobstructed. He said this was a great injustice. He further stated that the CBN Network was operating on broadband and therefore it was not necessary to obtain a license from the Rupavahini Corporation. He pointed out that the network had obtained the necessary license from the TRC.

Counsel for Rupavahini Corporation, Hemantha Warnakulasuriya PC complined that though the Court ordered CID to get the place checked by an engineer from Ruapavahini Corporation some days ago, the CID acted on the order only yestersday creating hardships to the Rupavahini Corporation. The counsel sought five days to make their observations on CBNsat and report to court,

The magistrate allowed Rupavahini Corporation two days to complete their findings.

The case was postponed for June 19

(TV Radio Sri Lanka - Please Check Highlighted Text)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

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