Colombo Crimes Division on Friday (15) informed court that the passport and National Identity Card of Sashi Weerawansa are forgeries.

Colombo Chief Magistrate Gihan Pilapitiya advised CCD to hand over the report to the Attorney general for further investigations.

Shashi Weerawansa, wife of National Freedom Front (NFF) leader Wimal Weerawansa, was arrested on February 22 over the charges of obtaining a diplomatic passport in an illegal manner, after providing forged documents.

She was alleged to have obtained diplomatic and general passports by submitting birth certificate with forged names and dates of birth. She had applied for a diplomatic passport in 2010 by submitting false personal information which was different to what appears in her previous normal passport that expired on May 24, 2009.