Acting IGP Priyantha Weerasuriya says that the police will seek permission from the relevant institutions to deploy armed officers on duty inside the courts.
The Acting IGP also said that lawyers visiting the court premises have not been subject to a search so far, and that he will request the Bar Association to assist in searching every lawyer visiting the court premises from now on.
The Acting IGP made this statement while speaking to the media following the shooting death of Ganemulla Sanjeewa, considered to be an organized crime gang leader, inside the No. 5 Magistrate’s Court in the Aluthkade Court Complex in Colombo this morning (19).