Weerawansa's wife had two passports with different data: Police

Former Minister Wimal Weerawansa’s wife is under probe by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) for providing false information two obtain two different passports, Police spokesman SSP Ajith Rohana said today. He said that she had obtained a normal passport and a diplomatic passport under different names. He said that usually a persons possessing a second passport should mention the number of the previous passport, but in this case there was no mention about the first passport. In the first passport obtained in 2004 she had mentioned the date of birth as 1967-02-01 under the name Shirja Udayanthi Weerawansa under the identity card number 675320233 V while in the second passport (diplomatic) obtained in 2010 she has given her name as Shehasa Udayanthi Ranasinghe with the birthday as 1971-02-03 and identity card number as 715344696 V. The CID has already recorded her statement in she had given the name as Sashi Weerawansa.