INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Sri Lankan cricketer Danushka Gunathilaka can use the WhatsApp messaging service and go out at night again after having his bail for rape
sexual intercourse without consent and has not yet entered a plea.After matching on Tinder, meeting up for a date and heading back to her
identified.Gunathilaka was banned from using Tinder and other social media platforms when he was granted bail by a magistrate in November
2022.The Crown consented to varying his bail on Thursday so that he can once again use WhatsApp, an encrypted messaging platform owned by
Facebook-parent Meta, and popular in his home country.Magistrate Jennifer Atkinson clarified the restrictions on his new freedom to use the
application to vary a condition on a night-time curfew, however it was granted by the magistrate.Mr Rixon said the curfew was needed to
with a hamstring tear.He was arrested shortly before boarding a flight home with the rest of the team after it bowed out of the
tournament.His case is expected to return to court in April.
Source: Australian Associated Press (AAP)
-Agencies
