The bail application filed before the Colombo High Court by former Parliamentarian Hirunika Premachandra’s lawyers has been fixed for consideration on 04 July 2024.
The bail application comes after Hirunika Premachandra is reported to have filed an appeal requesting to invalidate the recent verdict issued by the Colombo High Court sentencing her to three years of rigorous imprisonment.
Seeking her acquittal from the case, the relevant appeal has been handed over to the Colombo High Court to forward it to the Court of Appeal.
Last week, the Colombo High Court sentenced Hirunika Premachandra to 3 years of rigorous imprisonment for her involvement in the abduction and assault of a youth using a Defender in Dematagoda in 2015.
The Colombo High Court issued the verdict after deliberating the case filed by the victim Amila Priyankara, who alleged that he was abducted and assaulted by a group of people who came in a black Defender jeep to Dematagoda on December 21, 2015.
During the hearing of the case, making a dock statement in court, Hirunika Premachandra had claimed that she was at an event at the time of the incident and that one accused, who had pleaded guilty before the court, had seized her Defender without her consent and utilized it in the said incident. (Newswire)