Galagodaaththe Gnanasara thero sentenced to months rigorous imprisonment!

Galagodaaththe Gnanasara thero sentenced to  months rigorous imprisonment!

General Secretary of Bodu Bala Sena organisation, Galagodaaththe Gnanaransi thero who was accused of having threatened journalist Prageeth Ekneligoda's wife, Mrs. Sandya Ekneligoda with death was found guilty by court today and was issued a jail term of  rigorous imprisonment of months for criminal harassment and intimidation. The jail term of 1 year was thus
sentenced to be completed within six months.

Strong police protection has been provided at Homagama court complex and as there is a possibility that a state of commotion could erupt, the riot squad unit has been summoned. In the meantime, Galagodaaththe Gnanasara thero had been present with theros and donors who had gathered in large numbers when this habeaus corpus case was taken up for hearing on January 25th 2016 and he had shouted and intimidated Mrs. Sandhya Ekneligoda in abusive language saying that Ekneligoda was an LTTE supporter and "without you coming like that ... beg on the streets!" Subsequently during the course of the hearing, he had even reprimanded the judge himself using the word 'pon....'!

After the lawyers made a request to take action against the thero, the Homagama magistrate Ranga Dissanayaka ordered the police to take action in that regard. Homagama police subsequently filed this case under the allegations under No. 386 of criminal harassment and No. 486 of criminal intimidation. As the thero had evaded court continuously when the case was called for in this connection he had been served summons and had later appeared in court. After he was imposed the jail sentence for 6 months the thero was escorted to prison in the midst of protection from a large crowd.