A revision application filed by former Megapolis and Western Province Development Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka seeking an order preventing Colombo High Court from hearing the case filed against him over the alleged motor accident in 2016 at Rajagiriya has been fixed for February 21 by the Court of Appeal.
This Court moved to re-fix the application for further arguments to another date, due to the inability of Ranawaka’s lawyer Faiz Mustapha PC, to attend court, owing to ill health.
Accordingly, the Court of Appeal bench comprising Justice Menaka Wijesundera and Justice P. Kumararatnam fixed the revision application for further argument on February 21.
The Colombo High Court had rejected the preliminary objections raised by Patali Champika regarding the maintainability of the indictments.
Subsequently, Ranawaka filed this revision application challenging the order of the Colombo High Court to reject his preliminary objections.
The indictment comprising 16 charges had been filed in the High Court against MP Patali Champika, his driver Thusith Dilum Kumara and former officer In Charge (OIC) of the Welikada Police Station Sudath Asmadala on charges of fabricating false evidence, a conspiracy of fabricating, evidence and submitting false reports to the Magistrate.
The main charge is relating to conspiring and fabricating false evidence to claim that it was Dilum Thusith Kumara who was driving the vehicle which caused the accident and another charge relates to him allegedly conspiring to conceal evidence to protect MP Patali Champika from legal penalty.
