Magistrate Rejects Request To Transfer Shashi Weerawansa To National Hospital

February 26, 2015

Colombo Chief Magistrate Gihan Pilapitiya today rejected a request to transfer Shashi Weerawansa to Colombo National Hospital from the Prison Hospital where she is presently undergoing treatment.

Lawyer of Shashi Weerawansa, Jayantha Weerasinga PC made a request to the court saying his client needed further treatments from Colombo General Hospital as she was still recovering from illness.

In response, the magistrate rejected the request stating that a decision could only be made after a report by the Department of Registration of Persons, which is due tomorrow. 

The Registrar of the Department has been ordered to inform court tomorrow the criteria followed by them when issuing the National Identity card to the wife of former minister Wimal Weerawansa.
 
When she was produced before the court yesterday the magistrate ordered to remand her until March 4.
 
Shashi Weerawansa was arrested over the charges of obtaining diplomatic and general passports illegally.