Wasantha Karannagoda and Gotabaya Rejapaksa: Consistency? Gotabaya Rajapaksa seems happily free while Karannagoda has seen feeble efforts against him to bring him to book. On 15 Sept. when the Supreme Court took up the case, it postponed the hearing to 30 Jan. 2026. The Commission of InquiryInterestingly, we discern a dirty nexus between Karannagoda and Gotabaya Rajapaksa. In 2023, the United States sanctioned Karannagoda for gross human rights violations and prohibited him and his wife from entering the US.