Ranjan granted bail

Samanthi Weerasekara

UNP MP Ranjan Ramanayake who was arrested by the CID and later remanded on a court order over a complaint of a Rs one million fraud made by a teacher of a leading school in Kandy was released on Rs 25,000 cash and two sureties of Rs 500,000 when he was produced before Kandy Additional Magistrate Tanuj Jayatunge yesterday. Ramanayake was also ordered to give prior notice to court if he intended to go abroad at any time as a mandatory requirement.

He was also ordered to desist from posing any threat to the complainant. If there was any such complaint bail would be suspected and he would be sent back to jail.