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As a result of resolution taken by attorneys as we speak to withdraw from their skilled duties, the Colombo courts as we speak (16) determined to postpone two distinguished court docket circumstances which were broadly mentioned in Sri Lanka’s political sphere to different dates. Accordingly, the court docket hearings filed in opposition to Parliamentarian Namal Rajapaksa and former State Minister Diana Gamage have been thus postponed.
The Colombo Excessive Court docket ordered the postponement till February 19 of the case filed in opposition to Parliamentarian Namal Rajapaksa for allegedly acquiring Rs. 70 million from the Indian ‘Krrish’ firm, claiming it was for the promotion of rugby in Sri Lanka, after which misappropriating it. When the case was known as as we speak, the defendant MP appeared earlier than the court docket, however as a result of attorneys’ strike, the choose determined to postpone the proceedings for a brief interval.
This case, filed by the Lawyer Common underneath the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act, is predicated on a monetary transaction allegedly carried out together with the venture to lease 4.3 acres of land within the Fort space of Colombo to the Krrish firm in 2012. Investigations carried out by the Monetary Crimes Investigation Division (FCID) throughout the good governance authorities in 2015 revealed that the funds in query had been used for private functions as an alternative of for rugby. Indictments have been filed earlier than the Excessive Court docket in early 2025 in opposition to Mr. Namal Rajapaksa, who was remanded in 2016 in reference to this matter and later launched on bail, and he constantly claims that he has been subjected to political victimization.
In the meantime, Colombo Chief Justice of the Peace Asanga S. Bodaragama as we speak ordered the additional listening to of proof pertaining to one of many expenses within the case filed by the Legal Investigation Division (CID) in opposition to former State Minister Diana Gamage relating to the violation of immigration and emigration legal guidelines to be postponed till February 24. When the case was known as, the defendant and 4 witnesses associated to the incident appeared in court docket, and because the case was postponed as a result of attorneys’ strike, the Justice of the Peace suggested these witnesses to seem earlier than the court docket on the subsequent date as properly.
The case has been filed in opposition to the previous minister underneath seven expenses, the primary one being the submission of false data to the Controller Common of Immigration and Emigration by way of the related software to acquire a passport in January 2014. Moreover, she has been accused of violating the Immigration and Emigration Act by staying in Sri Lanka with no legitimate visa at varied instances between 2016 and 2020.
The trial was scheduled to begin after she declared herself harmless of the related expenses throughout the earlier court docket session. There, the Justice of the Peace ordered her launch on a money bail of Rs. 500,000 and two private bails of Rs. 10 million every. Moreover, her diplomatic passport, which was introduced as a court docket exhibit, was ordered to be positioned within the court docket secure, and the Legal Investigation Division (CID) knowledgeable the court docket that the Supreme Court docket had beforehand dominated her ineligible to carry a seat within the Sri Lankan Parliament attributable to her British citizenship.