NewsColombo High Court has issued notice on former General Secretary of the United National Party (UNP) Tissa Attanayake in a case against him for allegedly preparing fraudulent documents, local media rpeorted. The Attorney General indicted Tissa Attanayake over the case on September 09. Mr Attanayake had been accused of forging the signatures of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and President Maithripala Sirisena in a letter. Attanayake, who defected from the then opposition and was made Health minister for less than three weeks, is accused of fabricating the document to discredit the President and the PM. Attanayake alleges that the purported document was received by him the day he assumed duties as health minister

Source: Sunday Times September 26, 2016 08:15 UTC