Court order issued over protest planned by SJB MPs
Fort Magistrate Thilina Gamage has issued an order preventing several participants including seven Parliamentarians of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) from holding protest demonstrations that could inconvenience pedestrian and vehicular movements from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. yesterday.
The Magistrate made this order subsequent to a request made by the Fort Police.
The order also prevents protesters from entering the President’s office, the President’s House, the Finance Ministry and the Galle Face area.
The Magistrate also ordered them not to cause damage to any public property and desist from violent incidents which may provoke the public.