INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The Supreme Court today ordered for the fundamental rights (FR) petitions filed against the appointment of Deshabandu Tennakoon as the
Inspector-General of Police (IGP) to be taken up for consideration on July 08, 2024.A three-member bench has issued this order after
consideration of the eight petitions put forward by several parties including the Archbishop of Colombo Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, Prof
Savitri Gunasekara, former MP Hirunika Premachandra and several others.The petitioners allege that Tennakoon had neglected his duties during
his tenure as the Senior Deputy Inspector General of Police (SDIG) of the Western Province when the 2019 Easter attacks happened, and when a
