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Rajapaksa was appointed as the premier on October 26 by President Maithripala Sirisena after sacking Ranil Wickremesinghe.
Rajapaksa and his cabinet ministers have been asked to appear in court on December 12, the judge added.
The country has been in a crisis since Sirisena replaced Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe with Mahinda Rajapaksa last month, and then issued an order dissolving parliament and called for a general election.
One of the major issues of conflict was Sirisena's opposition to Wickremesinghe's nominee to the post of central bank, Governor Arjuna Mahendran.
Colombo: Sri Lankan lawmakers on Thursday exchanged blows and threw objects at each other, leaving at least one of them bleeding, as MPs loyal to President Maithripala Sirisena surrounded the Speaker in his chair after Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, who lost a floor test, demanded fresh
Rajapaksa's allies said they could not accept the vote, shouting 'this is illegal'.
Sirisena dissolved Parliament and ordered snap election on January 5, plunging the country's into an unprecedented political and constitutional crises.
Sirisena in an address to the nation outlined his reasons for dissolving parliament well ahead of its scheduled closure.
Sirisena's move to dissolve the parliament comes one and a half years ahead of the scheduled parliamentary polls.
President Maithripala Sirisena fired the sitting prime minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, on October 26 and appointed Rajapaksa in his place.