Supreme Court Ordered to Return Houses Taken Over By Mahinda Back to Legal Owners
In the year 2009 three houses in a housing apartment at Chapal lane Colombo 6 belongs to Sanmugam Sivaraja and Sivaraja Sarojini living in Switzerland were acquired by the Mahinda regime.
These houses were confiscated under the emergency regulation introduced on 7th January 2009 . These houses were acquired under section 7(1) of the above emergency regulation.
On cases filed by them, the Supreme Court declared that the acquisition was illegal and the houses should be handed over to its legitimate owners . Hence, Lawyers appeared for the applicants have requested the IGP to return to the houses back to them.
