Two persons including the convenor of the Inter-University Students’ Federation (IUSF) – Madushan Chandrajith have been granted bail,

They were arrested and remanded for staging a protest demonstration in front of the Health Ministry, defying a court order.

The duo was each released on two surety bails of Rs. 1 million each after being produced before the Maligakanda Magistrate’s Court.

The Court of Appeal has ordered the relevant Returning Officers to re-accept nearly 37 rejected nomination papers submitted by candidates to contest for several Local Government (LG) institutions islandwide.

This order was issued by the two-member Appeals Court bench comprising the Acting President of the Court of Appeal Justice Mohammed Thahir Laffar and Justice K.P. Fernando after considering writ petitions filed by several political parties and independent groups challenging the rejection of their nomination papers submitted to contest the upcoming LG Polls.

The Colombo High Court today (April 04) granted bail to Yoshitha Rajapaksa and his grandmother Daisy Forrest, after serving them with indictments.

Indictments were served before Colombo High Court Judge Aditya Patabendige in relation to a case filed under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.

Following this, they have been released on two surety bails of Rs.500,000 each.

The case will be taken up for hearing once again on May 30.