By Shehan Chamika Silva
National Freedom Front (NFF) spokesman Mohammed Muzammil was today further remanded till July 27 by Fort Magistrate Lanka Jayaratne on charges of misappropriating Rs.6.1 million in public funds by misusing a vehicle belonging to the Presidential Secretariat.
The Magistrate rejected the two requests made by defense lawyers who submitted a written bail application questioning the arrest.
The counsel said the arrest was made without proper evidence and that the suspect's child is suffering from an ailment as special circumstances for granting bail.
The Magistrate said he was unable to accept the child’s medical condition after perusing the reports submitted by a doctor on the child's ailment. She said according to the doctor’s report the special attention of the mother would be enough for the child.
The Magistrate advised the FCID to expedite the inquiry; since the allegation was under the Public Property Act and that Court could not grant bail without considering any special
The prosecution held that the suspect was given a vehicle by the Presidential Secretariat in 2009 under the previous government and following his defeat in the 2010 parliamentary elections he was appointed as an Acting Director of the Sri Lanka Engineering Corporation.
Police said the suspect had not returned the vehicle he had obtained from Presidential Secretariat in 2010 and deceived the Engineering Corporation by stating that the vehicle he obtained from the Presidential Secretariat was his private vehicle and on this basis the Corporation had re-reimbursed his traveling expenses.
The Police said the money had been deposited under the name of the suspect’s wife.
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