MANIMARAN APPEARS IN COURT AFTER CARDIFF PROTEST

Manimaran who invaded Cardiff grounds ... in Wales Court Fined Pounds 360
 
   LTTE supporter Manimaran Sadasaramurthi alias Logeshwaran Manimaran who invaded the playground carrying placards during the cricket match played at Cardiff sometime ago admitted guilty to the offence and it is reported that Magistrate's Courts of Cardiff has imposed a fine of 360 British Pounds (approximately Rs.72,000). As the rest of the 6 persons who were taken into custody together with him pleaded not guilty, their case will be heard in the month of September and till then they have been barred by the Magistrate from entering playgrounds to witness any national or international matches, the Wales online website reported.

   England security forces took Manimaran and his accomplices into custody for having invaded the grounds with placards of protest when the cricket match was in progress and filed legal action under the Public Offences Ordinance, Paragraph 5.

   42 year old Manimaran, unemployed, is a father of 2 children who lives in Surrey and he accepted his guilt for having violated conditions stipulated in Paragraph 5 of the British Public Offences Ordinance and the Magistrate ordered Manimaran to pay a fine of Pounds 250; Pounds 85 as Cost of Action and a further Pounds 25 to authorities of the grounds within a period of 7 days.

   After pleading guilty to the offence of invading the field without permission, what Manimaran said in the presence of the Magistrate was that his father was arrested by the Sri Lankan armed forces and killed during the war between Sri Lankan Army and the LTTE and that he rushed into the field to announce his protest against Sri Lankan government and also on behalf of 40,000 civilians who sacrificed their lives in the war in the same manner.

   Manimaran also mentioned that at the peaceful protest staged against Sri Lanka the previous week at the Oval grounds in London, the Sinhala people of Sri Lanka had threatened them saying that they would beat them up and kill them if they come back to Sri Lanka.
 
   Under the accusation that Manimaran Sadasaramurthi had committed an offence of robbing Rs.32,87,100 from Hatton National Bank and other banks of Sri Lanka by using bogus credit cards in May 2012 the International Police had issued Red Alerts to arrest him. The Sri Lanka police has forwarded clear evidence with photographs in this connection to the International Police and a Red Alert has been published in the website.

   The Judge has decided to postpone proceedings till September on the grounds that the rest of the suspects did not plead guilty for having violated conditions stipulated in Paragraph 5 of the British Public Offences Ordinance.

   During proceedings the police informed Courts that at the time Manimaran was taken into custody, he had disclosed a false name and age. The police further informed Courts that Manimaran had been found guilty for having forwarded false information to the authorities in the year 2006 too.