evidence: The Colombo High Court yesterday sentenced Minister Prasanna Ranatunga to a two-year rigorous imprisonment, suspended for five years, after he was found guilty of one of the charges in a case filed for intimidating an individual and extortion over a land dispute. [...] The Attorney General had filed an indictment against the former Western Province Chief Minister Ranatunga before the Colombo High Court in May 2016, accusing him of threatening a businessman in connection with the transactions of a land in Meethotamulla of 322 perches. [...] The case was heard against incumbent Urban Development and Housing Minister Ranatunga, his wife and a relative of the wife for allegedly extorting the funds during Ranatunga’s tenure as the Chief Minister of the Western Province.