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2 sources·Updated 1h ago

I didn't go when the monk went - to publicly apologize at the Kingsbury Hotel

Former Minister of Public Security, Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekera, has sent a letter of demand to the Kingsbury Hotel in Colombo, seeking 100 million rupees in compensation, based on a series of CCTV footage that caused a strong controversy on soci…

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Image: Gossip Lanka News EnglishGossip Lanka News English•1h agoI didn't go when the monk went - to publicly apologize at the Kingsbury Hotel

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NewsWire English•5h agoSarath Weerasekara threatens Rs. 100 million legal action against Kingsbury Hotel over leaking CCTV

Summary

Sarath Weerasekera alleges that the original footage was altered and released online to suggest that he and a Buddhist monk entered the same hotel room at the same time or approximately the same time. The letter of demand further emphasizes that it is a serious situation for any hotel to release internal CCTV footage to external parties without the client's consent.

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Names and places drawn from every article in this story. The number shows how many of them mentioned it.

People
  • Perera Seneviratne
  • Sarath Weerasekara
  • Sarath Weerasekera
  • Hendawitharana
Organisations
  • Tourism Development Authority2
  • The Kingsbury PLC2
  • Internet Protection Commission
  • Online Safety Commission
  • Sri Lanka Police
Places
  • Sri Lanka2
  • Colombo2
Keywords
  • hotel2
  • apologize
  • threatens
  • publicly
  • leaking
  • million
  • action
  • legal
  • cctv
  • didn

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First reported
Oct 30, 6:41 PM
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Oct 30, 10:40 PM

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