Senior Vice President of the Ceylon Workers’ Congress (CWC) and Uva Provincial Minister Senthil Thondaman surrendered to the Hatton Magistrate's Court, following a warrant issued for his arrest by the Hatton Magistrate yesterday. 

Hatton District Judge and Magistrate Prasad Liyanage directed that an accepted government doctor should compile medical reports if they are is submitted to the court.

Minister Palani Digambaran, the then Deputy Minister of National Languages and Social Integration, filed a case in 2014 alleging that Thondaman and several Provincial Councilors had blocked his vehicle in Ginigathhena on the Hatton-Colombo road.

Thondaman had failed to appear before the court when the Magisterial Inquiry on the case was taken up yesterday. His attorney, submitting a medical report, informed the court that his client was unwell.

However, the Magistrate rejected the medical report issued a warrant for him to be arrested and produced before the courts.

Thondaman was ordered to be present for the next hearing on September 6.