The Commissioner General of Motor Traffic, Kamal Amarasinghe, was granted bail on Monday after nearly a month in remand custody over alleged irregularities in vehicle registration.
Pilessa Magistrate W.M.M.I. Wasala in Kurunegala released Amarasinghe on a cash bail of Rs. 25,000 with two sureties of Rs. 200,000 each. The court also imposed a foreign travel ban on the accused. The case is scheduled to be taken up again on May 11.
Amarasinghe was arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department on March 27 in connection with an alleged irregularity in a vehicle registration. Investigators said the case involved aiding and abetting the alteration of a chassis number of a cab, which enabled a fraudulent vehicle registration. He was further remanded on April 10 after a previous court appearance.
The ruling ends a 24-day spell in CID custody but keeps the senior transport official under judicial supervision while investigations continue.
The RMV case forms part of a wider accountability cycle that has seen Sri Lanka’s investigative agencies pursuing several high-profile targets simultaneously, including the Mahinda Rajapaksa CIABOC assets case, the NDB Bank fraud investigation and the Pillayan murder confession.
