The Hon. Mahinda Jayasinghe
Mahinda Jayasinghe requested a copy of a document allegedly tabled regarding a 2024 court order, stating that he and others had not received any such order at the time. He said that in 2025 he, Ranjan Jayalal and then Minister Wasantha Samarasinghe were summoned by police to record statements around 20 August, and that they complied with that order. He disputed the reference to a 2024 order and asked that the relevant document be provided to him.
Verbatim record (translated)
Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Please send us the document you tabled. We did not receive any such order on the dates you cite in 2024. In 2024 your Government was in office; we were in the election period. If such an order had been issued then, we would not have been left in peace, Hon. Presiding Member. But in 2025 there was a very clear order for us to record statements. We have given those statements. Therefore, Hon. Member, send us the document you tabled. We went to give statements around 20 August 2025. I do not recall the exact date. The three of us — myself, Ranjan Jayalal, and then Minister Wasantha Samarasinghe — were summoned on the same day. We all went and gave statements. The police order to us was only that. Accordingly, we complied and respected the law. That is what happened. You are speaking of a 2024 court order. I request that the document tabled be made available to me.
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- Hansard, Wednesday, 24 September 2025 ·No. 1759815459006615 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. Mahinda Jayasinghe. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 24 September 2025. No. 1759815459006615. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/20956