When the outdated passport case against Parliamentarian and Jathika Nidahas Peramuna leader Wimal Weerawansa came up for hearing at the Negombo Magistrate's Court yesterday, Additional Magistrate Dushyantha Epitawela postponed the case for February 2, 2017 when the defence asked for 45 days time, since the plaintiff had decided to submit investigation evidence.
The CID had filed this case against Weerawansa for possessing an outdated passport and trying to travel abroad by using it. When the case was called yesterday, court informed Weerawansa that the case had been removed from the hearing list.
Airport authorities arrested Weerawansa when he arrived at the airport on October 23 to go abroad on an outdated passport.
The petitioner said Weerawansa had lodged a complaint to Police saying his passport used for several years had been lost and obtained a new passport.
Thereafter, the old passport had been cancelled. But Weerawansa had come to the airport and produced the passport which he claimed to have lost.
Answering questions posed by the media outside the court premises, Weerawansa said the attack on Sri Lanka's High Commissioner in Malaysia was engineered by the diaspora there.
Spots of the LTTE Tigers too have reemerged with this attack, he said.
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