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Jaffna Court grants Gotabaya Rajapaksa permission to testify online in Lalith–Kugan case

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The Jaffna Magistrate’s Court has granted permission for former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to give evidence remotely via video link in connection with the disappearance of activists Lalith Weeraraj and Kugan Murugananthan. The habeas corpus petition, filed by the relatives of the two activists who were abducted in Jaffna on December 10, 2011, has been under consideration for several years. Rajapaksa, who was serving as Defence Secretary at the…
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The Jaffna Magistrate’s Court has granted permission to former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to testify remotely via video link in the disappearance of social activists Lalith Weeraraj and Kugan Muruganandan. The habeas corpus petition filed by the relatives of the two activists who were abducted in Jaffna on December 10, 2011, has been pending for several years. Rajapaksa, who was serving as the Defence Secretary at the time of the incident, was…

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News Wire broke the news on Tuesday, June 2, 2026.
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