The Colombo High Court has ordered that the case filed against SLPP parliamentarian Namal Rajapaksa over the controversial “Krrish” deal be recalled on May 29.

The order was issued on Thursday when the case was taken up before High Court Judge Nadee Aparna Suwandurugoda, with Rajapaksa present in court, Newswire reported.

The Attorney General has filed charges alleging that Rajapaksa committed criminal breach of trust by obtaining Rs.70 million from the Indian Krrish company purportedly for the promotion of rugby in Sri Lanka. The payment is alleged to have been made during his father Mahinda Rajapaksa’s presidency, when a Krrish-backed mixed-use development project in Colombo was under consideration by the government.

Thursday’s hearing was procedural. The High Court previously postponed the matter in February when a lawyers’ boycott affected court business.

The Krrish proceedings are one of several active criminal and regulatory threads involving the Rajapaksa family. Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa is separately under a CIABOC assets probe, with an affidavit filed earlier this month, while brother Shasheendra Rajapaksa was arrested by the CID in connection with the Airbus bribery investigation. Namal Rajapaksa has also publicly contested the politicisation of the Easter attacks probe.

Sources