Sri Lanka, April 20 -- Colombo Chief Magistrate Asanga S. Bodaragama announced today (20) that the order regarding whether the seven cases filed against former State Minister Diana Gamage will be directed to other courts within the complex will be delivered on May 26.

These cases involve charges of violating the Immigrants and Emigrants Act.

The court is also expected to decide on that date whether the trials for subsequent cases should begin sequentially after the evidence examination of the first case concludes.

Attorney-at-Law Mohan Seneviratne, representing the defence, requested that five of the seven cases filed by the Criminal Investigation Department be transferred to other Additional Magistrate courts, while the remaining two ...