Aragalaya-Era Transfers: OICs Granted New Assignments

COLOMBO (News 1st); The Inspector General of Police informed the Supreme Court that five Police OICs, who were previously transferred due to their failure to prevent the burning of Ministers' houses during a period of the Aragalaya, have now been assigned suitable police stations in accordance with the agreement reached in court.

The Fundamental Rights petitions filed by five Police OICs were revisited before the Supreme Court.

The three-member Supreme Court bench, Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya, Gamini Amarasekara, and A.H.M.D. Nawaz presided over the proceedings.

During the hearing, Additional Solicitor General Viraj Dayaratne, representing the IGP, confirmed that suitable police stations had been allocated to the petitioners as per the prior court agreement.

Consequently, the three petitioner OICs expressed their consent to assume responsibility for these designated police stations, leading the bench to close the hearing on their petitions.

However, the legal representatives of the remaining two petitioner police officers conveyed their refusal to accept the police stations proposed by the Inspector General of Police.

Furthermore, the officers informed the court that their positions had been downgraded.

As a result, the bench scheduled a subsequent session on May 29 to deliberate on the petitions submitted by the two petitioning Police Station OICs.

President's Counsel Saliya Peiris, appeared on behalf of the petitioners.