Mahinda Rajapaksa and Basil Rajapaksa’s travel restrictions were extended by Sri Lankan Supreme Court on Wednesday till August 11.
Mahinda Rajapaksa, former prime minister, and Basil Rajapaksa, former finance minister, were previously prohibited from leaving the country without the court’s permission until July 28 by an interim order granted by the Sri Lankan Supreme Court.
According to local media sources, Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Sri Lanka detained three individuals on Tuesday in connection with the suspected July 9 arson of President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s private mansion in Colombo.
Two of the three suspects, according to the police, were to Madapatha and Colombo, respectively, and were 18 and 22 years old, according to the Daily Mirror.
Yesterday, they were nabbed in the Piliyandala and Narahenpita regions. The third suspect’s specifics weren’t immediately known.
Colombo Fort Magistrate’s Court remanded four individuals who had previously been held by the police in relation to the event until August 10.
Hours after Wickremesinghe promised to step down as prime minister and amid unprecedented nationwide calls for the ouster of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s administration, a group of demonstrators broke into his private house on July 9 and set it on fire.
After a heated incident between the demonstrators and security personnel on the ground, the protestors broke into 73-year-old Wickremesinghe’s home on 5th Lane in Colombo and set the premises on fire.
