(UPDATED) – MP Namal Rajapaksa on whom an arrest warrant was issued on Monday was released on bail today.
Mr Rajapaksa who returned from Maldives earlier in the day presented himself in court after filing a motion.
Mr Rajapaksa arrived around 11.30 a.m. from Maldives. His lawyers and a few supporters were present at the airport
Airport sources said that the Immigration officials or the Police had not been informed to arrest him.
The Hambantota Magistrate court on Monday issued the arrest warrant as Mr Rajapaksa had not been present in courts where a case against him was being taken up. He had been charged for taking part in an anti-government protest in 2017 in Hambantota.
The final rites of veteran broadcaster, writer, and lyricist Nirmala de Alwis will be held today at Peradeniya.
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