Sirasa boss threatens ANCL shutterbugs

A top executive of the Sirasa television management had threatened two Lake House photographers when they tried to take photographs of him at a musical event organised by Sirasa at the Sugathadasa Stadium last week.

Accoding to Photographers Geeth de Mel and Dushyantha Mayadunne were covering the event on the invitation extended to the Lake House by Sirasa, which is owned by the Maharaja organisation.

While the photographer was capturing the participants, the executive had walked up to the photographer and threatened him. Later his bodyguards had forced the photographer to delete the pictures from his camera chip. Journalists were not informed in advance of any restrictions on taking photographs of the MD or any other person attending this event.

The Working Journalists Association in a press release in condemning this act said it was unfortunate to note that the owners of Sirasa had stooped to that level while his own channel takes a keen interest to highlight threatsand harassment to media personnel in the recent past.