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Lalith Kotelawala was held hostage: Family tells court
By Lakmal Sooriyagoda
COLOMBO (Daily Mirror)- Businessman and former Ceylinco Consolidated Chairman Lalith Kotelawala was held hostage by a group of people by restricting his free movements, the family told the court.
Shireene Wijerathne, the sister-in-law of late Kotelawala told the Chief Colombo Magistrate's Court that a group of people including lawyers had surrounded Kotelawala and driven him into a fear psychosis.
The witness made this revelation when the inquest into the death of Lalith Kotelawala was taken up before Colombo Additional Magistrate Pasan Amarasena.
"They manipulated him into writing valuable properties including properties which he inherited, in their own names," she said.
She added that the businessman was held in a dark-tinted room with the only movement allowed being ten feet from his bedroom to the boardroom in his office.
"They convinced him to move out from his residence and moved him to his office where he was kept in a tinted room," she added. She said the lawyers had just completed their apprenticeships and came in the pretext to get certified copies of court proceedings.
"Thereafter, they got him to write valuable properties in their own names" she further said.
Counsel Hafeel Farisz with Shannon Thilekarathne appeared for the family. President's Counsel Anuja Premarathne appeared for a group of lawyers who were named by a previous witness.
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