Minister Sudarshani's police complaint

The Speaker too had made a special statement sometime back about the necessity of looking into sexual influences made on female parliamentarians in parliament. When the situation is such, Mrs. Sudarshani Fernandopulle, State Minister for City Planning and Water Supply has lodged a police complaint some days back regarding a certain person who had been continuously making unnecessary proposals to her via the telephone.

Mrs. Sudarshani who is the wife of the Late Minister Mr. Jeyaraj Fernandopulle is a doctor and is the mother of 2 children. After the new government came into power she joined with the Maithri Group and secured a Minister portfolio. She had mentioned in her complaint made to Kurunduwatta Police that during the past several days a certain person had been bringing undue proposals to her saying that he wishes to be intimate with her and to marry her.

Since it is not possible to make any investigations on the said telephone number without a court order, the police had explained matters to the Colombo Chief Magistrate's Court that this Minister had lodged a complaint to the police to the effect that the said anonymous caller had been worrying her from the last 7th and therefore to carry out an enquiry relating to this issue and to find the identity of the person concerned. After the Colombo Chief Magistrate who perused the information submitted then requested the relevant telephone company to forward a report regarding the number from where the call originated. Further investigations are underway.