Bail to Student Posted Hate Speech Refused

Bail to Student Posted Hate Speech Refused

During the period Kandy Muslims came under attack, a  Muslim student  from a leading  school alleged to have  used a Facebook account registered under a Sinhalese name to incite racial hate.
The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) on March 11 on suspicion of inciting racial hatred on social media had arrested and remanded him after producing him before the Magistrate.
When the case was taken up before Colombo Additional Magistrate Chanima Wijebandara today (26), the attorneys representing the defendant presented a bail application. However the Colombo Magistrate’s Court today refused to grant bail to him and he was ordered to be remanded until April 9