Court rejects Shasheendra’s bail appeal, further remanded

Former State Minister Shasheendra Rajapaksa,  has been further remanded until September 30 after the Colombo Chief Magistrate’s Court rejected his bail application today (22), Ada Derana reporter said. 

Colombo Chief Magistrate Asanka S. Bodaragama has rejected Shasheendra’s bail application and ordered that he be further remanded in custody.

Shasheendra Rajapaksa was arrested and remanded by the Bribery Commission on charges of committing the offense of “corruption” under the Anti-Corruption Act by illegally obtaining Rs. 8,850,000 as compensation for the destruction of his political office, which had been constructed on a Mahaweli land, by protesters during the ‘Aragalaya’.