| en_1744317_0 Colombo (News 1st): Gotabaya Rajapaksa today (October 1) filed a motion with the Permanent High Court Trial-at-Bar seeking permission to travel to Singapore for medical reasons from the 09th to the 12th of October. | |
| en_1744317_1 The former Defence Secretary further requested the court to lift his overseas travel ban and release his impounded passports. | |
| en_1744317_2 Counsel for Rajapaksa requested the court to release the passport as it is a necessary document to prove Sri Lankan Citizenship because his client is to submit his nomination for the Presidential Election. | |
| en_1744317_3 The Senior State Counsel appearing for the Attorney General said though there are no objections towards the request, the relevant reports on obtaining medical treatment have not been produced. | |
| en_1744317_4 He, therefore, requested the motion be called on Thursday to announce the views of the Attorney General. | |
| en_1744317_5 An overseas travel ban was imposed on Gotabaya Rajapaksa over a case filed regarding the misappropriation of Rs. | |
| en_1744317_6 33.9 million for the construction of the D.A. Rajapaksa Memorial and Museum. | |
| en_1744317_7 The case was called up in the presence of Justices Sampath Wijeratne, Sampath Abeykoon, and Champa Janaki Rajaratne. | |
| en_1744317_8 Senior State Counsel Udara Karunathilake informed the court that a request was made to travel overseas at a time when the court had already decided to take the matter for trial continuously from the 15th of October, is reasons for concern. | |