Sri Lanka ruling party MP accused of murder to return to parliament

Sri Lanka Parliament sources say that the ruling party parliamentarian Duminda Silva who was an accused of the killing of presidential adviser Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra would return to the parliament soon.
The legislator was on leave from parliament from October 2011 after he got severely injured in an election day shootout in Kolonnawa, a suburb of Colombo. During the gun battle Premachandra and four others were killed and MP Silva sustained severe injuries to the head. He received treatment for his injuries at the Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore before his return to the country last month. The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) filed four counts of charges on February 19 against 13 suspects including MP Duminda Silva before the Colombo Magistrate's Court. The suspects were charged with murder, conspiracy, attempted murder and unlawful assembly with a common intention. MP Silva is the 11th suspect of the multiple murders and he was remanded on March 05, 2013 as he returned to Sri Lanka and admitted to Nawaloka hospital. He was granted bail last week and he left the hospital yesterday posing to media for the first time after the shootout. A large crowd gathered outside the Nawaloka Hospital to greet the popular parliamentarian. The MP's counsel Hemantha Warnakulasuriya who maintained that the MP needed to be kept under intensive medical care told a Sunday newspaper that the MP had memory on the politics but he has lost memory about the murder. The lawyer also confirmed the return of the MP Silva to politics. -->