Retrial of Bulitavu and Karunaratne to be handled by Senior Magistrate

Retrial of Bulitavu and Karunaratne to be handled by Senior Magistrate

By Semi Turaga
26/02/2019
SODELPA MP Mosese Bulitavu [left] and Jagath Karunaratne [right]

The re‑trial of SODELPA MP Mosese Bulitavu and Jagath Karunaratne will be handled by Senior Resident Magistrate Waleen George.

Karunaratne and Mosese Bulitavu were acquitted by High Court Judge Justice Vinsent Perera for sedition but the judge also ordered a retrial in their case.

Bulitavu was serving a sentence of two years, five months and 13 days imprisonment and Karunaratne was serving a sentence of two years, five months and 16 days imprisonment.

Bulitavu and Karunaratne are alleged to have spray painted words in different places between Nausori and Suva with the seditious intention of bringing into hatred or contempt or to excite disaffection against the government of Fiji.

They allegedly did this with others between the 1st and 27th of August 2011.

The case will be called again on 4th March.

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