Minister Devananda has filed a petition at the Madras High Court to annul a local court proclamation declaring him as an absconding accused in connection with a 1986 murder case in Chennai.
The court has directed the minister to approach the trial court to recall the non-bailable warrant pending against him in the case and disposed of the petition filed by him.
The Judge also gave him the option to approach the High Court to seek anticipatory bail.
A local judge in June 1994 had issued a proclamation warrant against Douglas Devananda, treating him as an 'absconding accused' in the case relating to the killing of a city resident in 1986.
During Devananda's visit to India in June this year with the Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, a pro-LTTE group filed a petition seeking his arrest.
The Minister said when a petition was filed against him on the charges that he is not aware of being declared as a proclaimed offender but ready to face any legal proceedings if brought against him.
Devananda however, said that he was pardoned according to the Indo-Sri Lanka agreement.
