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Court calls for details of Deepthi’s phone bills
By Asif Fuard
The Colombo Magistrate's court has called for details of Deepthi Bogollagama's telephone bills to ascertain details of the conversations that took place before the an alleged stabbing incident. Minister Rohitha Bogollagama's wife, Deepthi is alleged to have stabbed Dr. S. Narenthiran at his residence.

Colombo Additional Magistrate Mohammed Irshadeen ordered Sri Lanka Telecom to hand over the details of the phone calls made from the doctor's residence, to the police for further investigations. Mrs. Bogollagama and Dr. Narenthiran were summoned to Courts on Monday after the police filed their reports on the investigations.

Although attempted murder is a bailable offence, Mrs. Bogollagama has not yet been arrested to be given bail. She was seen at Shahrukh Khan's concert on Saturday and later at President Chandrika Kumaratunga's 10th Anniversary celebrations which was held in Matara. Ms. Bogollagama told the Borella police last Saturday that her stabbing the Doctor at his residence at Gunasekara Gardens in Colombo was an act of self defence since he had tried to sexually molest her.

Dr. Narenthiran was stabbed after he and his wife Dr. Nishadi Ranasinghe failed to turn up in courts on the previous day in a defamation case filed where Mr. Bogollagama is implicated.

She had wanted to amicably settle the case Mr. Bogollagama had filed against Dr. Nishadi Ranasinghe for an alleged illicit relationship with him as it was tarnishing the Minister’s good name. The case has been re-fixed for January 4, 2005.

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