President Gotabaya Rajapaksa issued a new gazette notification giving legal effect to setup a new detention centre to hold suspects arrested under provisions in the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA).
“I , Gotabaya Rajapaksa, President do hereby notify that the premises specified in the Schedule hereto, shall be a place of detention for the purposes under Section 9 of the Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act , No. 48 of 1979,” the gazette notice said.
Accordingly, the current Counter-Terrorism Investigation Unit located in Kirulapone, Colombo 05, will be used as the new detention centre.
Former Chairman of SriLankan Airlines, Nishantha Wickramasinghe, arrested on allegation of corruption by the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) has been remanded until July 1 by the Colombo Magistrate court.
The Committee on High Posts has approved the nomination of Former Air Force Commander Air Chief Marshal (Retd.)
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