The Supreme Court today granted permission to former Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa to go abroad. This permission is valid till January 15 next year.
Several petitions have been filed before the Supreme Court asking for an order to be issued to the investigating agencies to investigate the people responsible for the current economic crisis. Former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, Basil Rajapaksa and others have been named as respondents in the petitions.
The Supreme Court, which considered these petitions, had issued a foreign travel ban to the respondents of the petitions.
The lawyers representing Basil Rajapaksa asked the court today that their client wants to leave for America for medical treatment and other personal reasons. After considering the request, the foreign travel ban imposed on Basil Rajapaksa was temporarily lifted.
These petitions were considered before a five-member Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya.
