Solicitor General Dilrukshi Dias Wickramasinghe has withdrawn her resignation request which had been tendered to contest at the upcoming presidential polls, sources at the Attorney General (AG)'s Department said.
Ms. Wickramasinghe, in a letter, had requested the AG to permit the resignation before her service ended, but had withdrawn the request before it had been sent to the Public Service Commission (PSC).
The Solicitor General had withdrawn her letter when the administrative branch of the AG's Department had sought to confirm her decision, sources said.
Ms Wickramasinghe had served as the Chairman of the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery and Corruption before resigning in 2016 - in an apparent response to President Maithripala Sirisena's remarks on independent commissions.
Attempts to contact the Solicitor General proved futile.
(Reporting by Manopriya Gunasekara)
A Sri Lanka Air Force Bell 212 helicopter belonging to the No. 72 squadron has crashed into the Madhuru Oya reservoir this morning, Air FOrce Media Spokesman Eranda Geeganage said.
Update: Five of the twelve passengers on board the bell 212 aircraft that crashed into the Maduru Oya today, have succumbed to their injuries, the SLAF said.
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