The Supreme Court has temporarily suspended the High Court trial on MP Patali Champika Ranawaka pertaining to an accident in Rajagiriya in 2016.
The court has issued a Stay Order preventing the High Court trial until 15th March 2023.
The trial was to take place with regard to the case filed against former MP Ranawaka whose Jeep was involved in an accident in Rajagiriya in 2016, critically injuring a motorcyclist.
The former Parliamentarian, who had reportedly fled the scene, had later produced his driver in court as the one who had been driving the vehicle at the time of the accident.
Patali Champika Ranawaka was later arrested and remanded in December 2019 over the accident on the instructions of the Attorney General. He was later released on bail.
The AG thereafter filed indictments against the MP on causing grievous injury to a person by rash and negligent acts and other charges over the accident. (NewsWire)
