The Colombo High Court has granted bail to former Parliamentarian Hirunika Premachandra, who was sentenced to 3 years of rigorous imprisonment in June this year.
Hirunika Premachandra was granted bail by Colombo High Court Judge Amal Ranaraja after the bail application filed by the former MP was taken up for consideration today.
In June, 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.
Earlier, 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)