INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The Supreme Court has dismissed four petitions filed seeking a judgment that the essential human rights have actually been broken through
the governments recent decision to minimize the interest paid for the financial investments of Employees Provident Fund (EPF) in treasury
bills and bonds to 9%, under the domestic financial obligation restructuring process.This order was released by the court today (30 ), after
accepting the preliminary objections raised by a number of parties consisting of the Attorney General that the appropriate petitions can not
be maintained considering that Fundamental Rights petitions submitted referring to the exact same matter have been dismissed earlier without
taking into consideration.The 4 petitions submitted by several celebrations including the Katunayake Free Trade Zone Workers Union were used
up before the three-member Supreme Court judge bench including Justices Preethi Padman Surasena, Kumuduni Wickremesinghe and Achala
