–Arundika Fernando
UPFA MP Arundika Fernando giving evidence at the Homagama Magistrate’s Court in the case of missing journalist Prageeth Eknaligoda said today JVP MP Sunil Handunetti had told him that Ekneligoda was alive and living in Belgium.
He named Mr. Handunetti after the lawyer Upul
Kumarapperuma who led evidence asked Mr. Fernando to name the opposition parliamentarian whom he claimed in a newspaper had informed him that Eknaligoda was alive.
“Since it’s in court I will name him. He is Sunil Handunetti,” he said.
Fernando also said his statement in parliament regarding the existence of missing journalist Ekanligoda was made on the trust he had placed on the word of Manjula Wediwardane.
Mr. Fernando told court that he had never seen Prageeth Eknaligoda and it was Wediwardane who had, in fact, recognised him. He further said Wediwardane told him that the man who had entered the house t in France at that time was Prageeth Ekneligoda. The next hearing was postponed to August 21.
