• CID ordered to arrest Prasanna Ranaweera

Former Minister Mervyn Silva, who was arrested and remanded for allegedly selling a plot of State-owned land in Kiribathgoda to a private party by forging documents, has been further remanded.

Silva and three other defendants in the case have been further remanded till 19 May by the Mahara Magistrate’s Court.

Meanwhile, the court has also issued arrest warrants on former State Minister Prasanna Ranaweera and Milroy Perera who are also implicated in the case.

Accordingly, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has been instructed by the Mahara Magistrate to arrest the duo and produce them in the court at the next hearing.

Silva was arrested by the CID on 5 March for allegedly selling a plot of State-owned land to a private party after forging documents.