Australian Courts agree to hear Danushka Gunathilaka’s bail applications

By Bipin Dani

Danushka Gunathilaka’s bail application (no. 2022/00337563) will be heard by the Supreme Court on November (28), it is learnt.   

According to highly-placed sources in Australia, on Monday, the Sri Lankan batter Gunathilaka’s bail application in the Supreme Court was submitted to the Registrar G. Galani by his new lawyer and the same has been accepted and accordingly it will be heard at 9.00 a.m. on November  28. 

Incidentally, the lawyers had also filed an application (no. 2022/00337572) to the local court stating that the rejection of the first bail appeal be heard again but by some other judge and accordingly it has also been accepted to be heard on November 17 at 9:30 a.m.   

The 31-year-old Gunathilaka is facing criminal charges for the alleged sexual assault of a 29-year-old woman in Australia. These applications will now be heard in Courts 4.4 or 4.5 Downing Street Centre Courts.   

Gunathilaka’s new lawyer is Ivan Zayed. The services of another prominent lawyer Anand Amarnath will no longer be hired for this case, it is also learnt.   

After elimination from the World Cup, the Sri Lankan team returned home without Gunathilaka. The investigators have described Gunathilaka as a “flight risk” in their report. The term “flight risk” is used to describe a person under custody of law enforcement who is considered likely to abscond.