The Court of Appeal today (27) dismissed a writ petition filed by a lawyer seeking an order to the CID to arrest Western Province senior DIG Deshabandu Tennakoon for his failure to prevent an attack on peaceful protesters at Galle Face last year.
The petition was ordered to be dismissed with costs by president of the Court of Appeal Nissanka Bandula Karunaratne and justice A. Marikkar, who accepted a preliminary objection raised by the lawyer for Tennakoon.
The petition sought an order for the arrest of the senior police officer as a suspect in the attack on ‘Gota Go Gama’ protest site, record statements and to present them before courts.
