Attanayake Case: Court re-summons Prez, PM

17 July 2017 02:08 pm

The Colombo High Court today re-summoned President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to appear in court on December 4 to give evidence in a case filed against Tissa Attanayake on charges of forgery.

High Court Judge Vickum Kaluarachchi also issued summons on the10th and 11th witnesses who were also not present in court when the case was taken up today.

The witnesses, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12 and 15 were warned to be present in court on the next call date to give evidence in the case where Mr. Attanayake is charged with displaying a fraudulent document at a propaganda meeting during last year’s presidential election in support of the then president Mahinda Rajapaksa.(T. Farook Thjaudeen)