Astrologer Vijith Rohana Wijemuni was released from the case filed against him over predicting President Maithripala Sirisena’s death in January 2017 by Colombo Chief Magistrate Lanka Jayarathne.
The Magistrate stated that the Attorney General had instructed that there was no sufficient evidence to file this against him.
According to the B-report, CID stated that the first video released by the suspect predicted that the President would die on January 26 and later he posted another video proposing another date to that effect in a manner creating disaffection amongst the public.
The suspect, Vijitha Rohana Wijayamuni, a former naval officer, was found guilty for attempted murder, when he assaulted then Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi during his visit to Sri Lanka in 1989 to sign the Indo-Lanka Peace Accord.
The CID had arrested the suspect on January 31, over an offence he allegedly committed under Section 120 of the Penal Code and Section 6 of the Computer Crimes Act after sharing a video on social media forecasting the death of the President on January 26, 2017.
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