KMC to recover Rs.10 Mn lawyer fees spent on sentenced Mayor, others

The Kurunegala Municipal Council (KMC) has decided to recover Rs.10 million spent from the Municipal Council accounts as payments for lawyers who represented the former Kurunegala Mayor Thushara Sanjeewa Vitharana and four others who were sentenced to three years of rigorous imprisonment for the demolition of the King’s Assembly Hall in Kurunegala dating back to the era of King Buwanekabahu.

The Municipal Council is making arrangements to send surcharge notices to the five persons, including the former mayor who is in jail, to recover the amount. On July 14 2020, the Kurunegala Municipal Council demolished the King’s Assembly Hall, an archaeologically significant site, as part of a road expansion project. Later, legal action was initiated against the former mayor and four others after the Archaeology Department filed a complaint claiming that the building has been listed under the provisions of the Antiquities Ordinance No. 9 of 1940.

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