Senior Vice President of the Ceylon Workers’ Congress (CWC) and Uva Provincial Minister, Senthil Thondaman, today surrendered to courts following a warrant issued for his arrest by the Hatton Magistrate’s Court.
Hatton District Judge and Magistrate Prasad Liyanage stated in open court that if a medical report is submitted for failure to appear before the court, it should be a report compiled by an accepted government doctor.
The magistrate also ordered him to appear before the court once again on September 06 when the case taken up for hearing.
Minister Palani Digambaran, who was the Deputy Minister of National Languages and Social Integration in the former government, had filed a case in 2014 claiming that Thondaman and several Provincial Councilors had blocked his vehicle in Ginigathhena on the Hatton-Colombo road.
When the case was taken up yesterday (1), the Provincial Minister had failed to appear before the court while his attorney submitting a medical report informed the court that his client was unwell.
However, the Hatton District Judge and Magistrate Prasad Liyanage rejected the medical report and stated that a warrant will be issued for Thondaman as he has failed to appear at court each time the case was heard.
