{"id":1222,"date":"2026-05-14T06:41:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T06:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/?p=1222"},"modified":"2026-05-14T06:41:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T06:41:20","slug":"colombo-high-court-orders-continuation-of-case-against-yoshitha-rajapaksa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/2026\/05\/14\/colombo-high-court-orders-continuation-of-case-against-yoshitha-rajapaksa\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombo High Court Orders Continuation of Case Against Yoshitha Rajapaksa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Colombo High Court today (14) ruled that the charges filed against Yoshitha Rajapaksa under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act can proceed further.<\/p>\n<p>Colombo High Court Judge Udesh Ranatunga rejected a preliminary objection submitted by Yoshitha Rajapaksa\u2019s legal team, which argued that the case could not be maintained.<\/p>\n<p>In delivering the ruling, the judge stated that there was no legal obstacle to continuing the charges against the accused.<\/p>\n<p>Following the ruling, the indictment against Yoshitha Rajapaksa was formally read before the court. In response, he pleaded not guilty to the charges.<\/p>\n<p>The court thereafter decided to continue further hearings and proceedings related to the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Colombo High Court today (14) ruled that the charges filed against Yoshitha Rajapaksa under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act can proceed further. Colombo High Court Judge Udesh Ranatunga rejected a preliminary objection submitted by Yoshitha Rajapaksa\u2019s legal team, which argued that the case could not be maintained. In delivering the ruling, the judge &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1224,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions\/1224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}