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Immigration Chief pleads guilty to contempt charges over controversial visa deal
Daily FT
|July 02, 2025
THE Department of Immigration and Emigration (DIE) Controller General Harsha Ilukpitiya yesterday pleaded guilty before the Supreme Court to contempt of court charges relating to the controversial outsourcing of visa processing services in 2024.
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The Supreme Court sitting as a three-judge bench led by Justices Yasantha Kodagoda, Janak de Silva, and Arjuna Obeyesekere, fixed 24 July to determine sentencing.
Ilukpitiya was remanded on 25 September 2024 under Section 9(7) of the Contempt of Court, Tribunal, or Institution Act No. 08 of 2024 for failing to comply with a Supreme Court order requiring the suspension of the outsourced visa processing system.
Saliya Pieris PC appeared on behalf of Ilukpitiya, while Attorney-at-Law Vishwa De Livera Tennakoon appeared for the petitioners.
On 25 September when the Supreme Court Registrar read out the charges of contempt of court in open court, the respondent Ilukpituiya pleaded not guilty of the allegations (https://www. ft.lk/front-page/Supreme-Court-remands-Controller-Generalof-Immigration-for-contempt-of-Court/44-767180).
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