Colombo Chief Magistrate Gihan Pilapitiya on Tuesday ordered the Public Performance Board and the Intellectual Property Act office to be present in court on January 4 ,2016 to find out whether the suspect Bindu Bothalegama, acting as a comedy artist, had infringed the rights of the complainant Bandu Samarasinghe.

Magistrate Pilapitiya made this order after hearing the submissions of the parties in a case in which complainant Samarasinghe had alleged that the Bindu Bothalegama, by imitating him, had violated the provisions of the Intellectual Property Act. (T. Farook Thajudeen)