{"id":129985,"date":"2022-11-17T16:42:32","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T23:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=129985"},"modified":"2022-11-17T16:42:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T23:42:32","slug":"arjuna-ordered-to-pay-rs-25-mn-in-compensation-to-thilanga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/11\/17\/arjuna-ordered-to-pay-rs-25-mn-in-compensation-to-thilanga\/","title":{"rendered":"Arjuna ordered to pay Rs. 25 Mn in compensation to Thilanga"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Civil Appellate High Court of Mount Lavinia today (Nov. 17) ordered National Sports Council chairman Arjuna Ranatunga to pay a compensation of Rs. 25 million to former president of the national cricket board Thilanga Sumathipala.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The order was issued with regard to a defamation case filed by the former Sri Lanka Cricket president against the former national cricket team captain over a statement made in 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sumathipala had sought compensation of Rs. 500 million from Ranatunga for making a defamatory statement claiming that he is unsuitable to serve as Sri Lanka Telecom chairperson or any similar position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The case was called before Civil Appellate High Court Judges Harsha Senatunga and Devapriya Gunawardena, who ruled that the comment in question is slanderous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Civil Appellate High Court of Mount Lavinia today (Nov. 17) ordered National Sports Council chairman Arjuna Ranatunga to pay a compensation of Rs. 25 million to former president of the national cricket board Thilanga Sumathipala. The order was issued with regard to a defamation case filed by the former Sri Lanka Cricket [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-judiciary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}