Court rejects prohibition order on protest by Thero

COLOMBO (News 1st); Mount Lavinia Additional Magistrate Sanjaya Wijesinghe dismissed the prohibition order produced by the Dehiwala Police preventing a protest that was to be staged on Wednesday (07) opposite the Buddhist Center along Anagarika Dharmapala Mawatha in Dehiwala, by Venerable Akmeemana Dayarathana Thero and several others.

The Additional Magistrate ordered the Dehiwala Police to take necessary actions using police powers, if the protest violated the existing quarantine regulations and if public peace is violated.