(UTV|COLOMBO) – The revision application filed before the Colombo High Court against the Colombo chief magistrate’s order granting bail to IGP Pujith Jayasundara and former Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando is scheduled to be considered on August 1st.
When the revision application was taken up before the Colombo High Court Judge Vikum Kaluarachchi today (23), the respondents of the revision, former Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando and IGP Pujith Jayasundara appeared before the court.
Jayasundara and Fernando were released on bail by the Colombo Chief Magistrate Lanka Jayaratne on July 09.
Announcing the bail order, the chief magistrate stated that the information presented at the Special Presidential Commission of Inquiry probing the terror attacks on Easter Sunday cannot be considered at the magistrate’s court proceedings.
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