Colombo: A Sri Lankan court on Monday opened a hearing on charges of fraud against incumbent President Mahinda Rajapaksa by a former Army commander who ran against him in the last election. Former Army chief General Sarath Fonseka, currently in military custody on charges of conspiracy, alleged that Rajapaksa rigged the January 06 Presidential Election. The case was heard in the Supreme Court by a five-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Ashoka de Silva. The suit alleges that Rajapaksa illegally...
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