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Indictments against Ranil Wickremesinghe to be filed before next hearing, court informed
The Fort Magistrate's Court on Wednesday (29) ordered authorities to either file charges or release former President Ranil Wickremesinghe before
Summary
The former president Ranil Wickremesinghe did not appear in court, with his counsel, President's Counsel Tilak Marapana, informing the court that his client was unable to attend due to ill health and submitting medical reports. Defence counsel argued that the visit was undertaken following an official invitation from a university and maintained that there was no misuse of public funds.
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People
- Ranil Wickremesinghe2
- Tilak Marapana2
- Maithree Wickremesinghe
- Isuru Neththikumara
- Saman Ekanayake
- Dileepa Peiris
Organisations
- Additional Solicitor General2
- Fort Magistrate2
- Additional Solicitor General Dileep Peiris
- Additional Solicitor General Dileep
- Criminal Investigation Department
- Magistrate Isuru Neththikumara
- University of Wolverhampton
- British High Commission
Places
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Honour
- London
- Cuba
Keywords
- indictments2
- against2
- court2
- filed2
- peirisquote
- informed
- hearing
- before
- next
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