After one week (since Sept. 02nd) in remand prison, Jeyakumary was finally released on bail yesterday (Sept. 08th). Two Sureties were produced before the Kebithigollewa Magistrate on Sept. 04th (Friday), but, as the Magistrate was not satisfied with the Residential Certificate signed by the Grama Sevaka that the Sureties had obtained, they had to return on Sept. 07th (Monday) with Character Certificates signed by their respective Grama Sevaka, and authorized by their respective Divisional Secretariats.
As the Sureties had to travel all the way from Jaffna to Kebithigollewa, after having gotten the relevant documents from the local government authorities, they had only reached Kebithigollewa around 1.45pm on Monday (07th). As it had taken about 45 minutes till about 2.30pm for all the administrative issues such as paying the fines and producing the reports etc., to conclude, the prison authorities had said that they wouldn’t be able to go to the Anuradhapura Remand Prison to bring Jeyakumary and return in time before the Courts close at 3.30pm, and that they would bring her to Court to be released the following day.
Jeyakumary was released early morning before the start of Court proceedings yesterday (08th), after having signed the case record.
Her lawyers have requested authorities for a full certified copy of the case proceedings and B-Report.
Her next court hearing will be on the 16th of September at the Padaviya Magistrate Court.
Jeyakumary upon her reunification with her daughter yesterday had broken down and whilst crying profusely asked “why are they doing this to me and separating me from my child? I haven’t done anything wrong.”
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