Yesterday, Kuliapitiya Magistrate Randika Lakmal Jayalath ordered that a student of the same school who merged a photo of a female teacher’s face with a nude picture of another woman to be released on two sureties of Rs 5 lakh each.
The judge warned the suspect not to make any changes to the edited photographs and warned the suspect that if he violates the bail conditions, the bail will be revoked and the suspect will be remanded until the case is over.
The police told the court that the photos edited by the suspect had been posted in a Facebook group containing obscene scenes and in a group on the Telegram network, mentioning the phone number of the teacher.
Presenting the suspect to the court, the Senior Superintendent of Police in charge of Kuliapitiya Division, Mahesh Kumarasinghe, said that the teacher in question was very depressed due to this incident.
Under stress.
The judge ordered that the case be called back on August 28 for further hearing.