The features editor of the 'Lanka' newspaper and NPP activist, Wimal Katipearachchi, has lodged a complaint with the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) against a defamatory news report that was published by a website along with his photograph.
Katipearachchi had lodged a complaint with the CID yesterday (04). Subsequent investigations into the news report have revealed that the only source quoted in the website to be fake.
The website, Mawubima.com (not affiliated to national newspaper Mawbima) had published the defamatory news report under the headline, 'Owner of the obscene video circulating on social media identified.'
Katipearachchi had also lodged a complaint with independent fact checkers, Fact Crescendo, who had investigated the matter and had determined that the news report was completely fabricated.
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