Interviewed in her hospital bed:

'Drama queen' in the news

By Anuradha Kodagoda

"All these accusations against me are baseless; it's just a case of mud-slinging. I'm ready to face any accusation because I'm quite confident about myself.

what was unbearable was the fact that the authorities kept me away from my two children and my husband and that I couldn't cope up is they kept me away two days from my children and my husband.

However, they will never leave and will always be with me" said the 'drama queen' who was in the news in the past few weeks.

She was finally located after four police teams went on a search and the rest is history. We are talking about none other than Shashi Weerawansa, wife of ex-minister Wimal Weerawansa.

We met up with her while she was at the Colombo National Hospital two days ago - the day she was granted bail by the Colombo Magistrate.

She was released on a personal bail of Rs 500,000 and a cash bail of Rs 15,000 under strict conditions, after a motion seeking bail was taken up for consideration last Friday (27) before Colombo Fort Magistrate, Gihan Pilipitiya.

The defendant has been ordered to appear before the court registrar once every month and to refrain from attempting to influence witnesses in the case.

She was bailed out and returned to hospital to get further treatment for her medical condition. It was at this time that we visited her.

We tried to get a glimpse of her bed head ticket but it eluded us and was nowhere near her bed.

She was quite comfortable in her hospital bed in room number nine of the Merchants' ward of the Colombo National Hospital.

She quite coolly spoke to visitors who visited her. Sashi Weerawansa told us that former president Mahinda Rajapaksa and Shranthi Rajapaksa had just visited her a while ago.

The whole drama began when the CID arrested Shashi Weerawansa at a private hospital in Malabe last Sunday (22) and she was subsequently remanded by the Colombo magistrate on charges of submitting forged documents to obtain a diplomatic passport.

At that time she looked terribly ill with an undiagnosed ear pain, where specialist doctors couldn't nail the exact disease at the time she was remanded and transferred from the Neville Fernando private hospital in Malabe to the prison hospital.

However,she appeared in Courts on the very next day (February 24) without showing any signs of her illness.

Apparently by the time she was released on personal bail the pain had spread all over her body and ended up in her womb!

The National Freedom Front leader Wimal Weerawansa later said that the arrest of his wife was to disrupt his political journey and added that no matter what, he would not bow down before anyone and would proceed on his political journey.

However, it was later reported that the documents furnished by Weerawansa to the Department of Registrations of Persons and the Department of Immigration and Emigration had disappeared.

Currently the CID was also conducting a separate investigation into the disappearance of documents related to the National Identity Card and passport of Shashi Weerawansa.