Considering the seriousness of the COVID-19 situation, the Attorney General has requested the Chief Justice to consider cancelling court sittings in the High Court fixed for the next two curfew days that had been scheduled to consider bail.
AG's Coordinating Secretary State Counsel Nishara Jayaratne stated that these sittings had been scheduled to consider bail in matters falling outside the decision of the Committee appointed by the President.
In the circumstances at this moment where the incidents of COVID-19 is on the rise in the Country, the AG has urged the CJ to consider cancelling High Court sittings of the Colombo High Courts and other High Courts scheduled for April 2 and 3 and reschedule sittings when the environment is condusive for the same.
Tamar Amitai, a 25-year-old Israeli tourist who went missing in Uppuveli, Trincomalee, was found safe after a three-day joint search operation today.
The Colombo High Court today (28) sentenced former parliamentarian Hirunika Premachandra to three years of Rigorous Imprisonment over charges of the involvement of an abduction.
In his special statement, President Ranil Wickremesinghe announced that debt restructuring agreements will postpone all bilateral loan payments to foreign countries until 2028. Additionally, Sri Lanka will have until 2043 to repay these loans on concessional terms.
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