The Northern Provincial Council's education minister, K Sarveswaran was approached by two Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) officers this week, ordering him to attend for an inquiry at their Colombo 4th floor office on June 5.
Mr Sarveswaran complained however after the summons the TID officers provided appeared to be similar to an anonymous letter rather than a formal document and spelt his name incorrectly as 'K Parameswaran'.
"If the TID are coming with an anonymous letter to me as an NPC minister, just imagine how ordinary civilians are treated," Sareswaran told media afterwards.
Mr Sarveswaran told officers that his schedule was already finalised from June 5 till 14 and therefore he would not be able to attend on their specified date.
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