Mr. Silva is to appear before courts on Nov. 11 as a witness of a case with regard to the disappearance of three persons in Mattakkuliya on October 2011.

Chief Magistrate Gihan Pilapitiya issued notice on former minister sequent to a Habeas Corpus petition filed by relatives of the three missing persons.

The petitioners had urged to call the former Minister as a witness due to his recent statements made to media and the complaint he had lodged with the CID, citing that he knew information about the “white vans” which were used to abduct civilians during the previous regime.