පොලිස්පතිට එරෙහිව ගම්පහ මහේස්ත්‍රාත්ගෙන් අධිකරණ අපහාස පැමිණිල්ලක්!

Daily Mirror, Newswire, Sri Lanka Mirror and Ada Derana report that Gampaha Magistrate Bandula Gunaratne referred material concerning Inspector General of Police Priyantha Weerasuriya to the president of the Court of Appeal for contempt proceedings. Daily Mirror and Sri Lanka Mirror say the magistrate instructed the registrar to transmit the files, while Lankadeepa also reports a referral for proceedings against the IGP.

Lankadeepa and Sri Lanka Mirror report that the magistrate found the IGP had failed to carry out court directions. WhatNews reports that the magistrate said the non-compliance involved an attempt to mislead the court. Sri Lanka Mirror says the directions concerned issuing a circular asking police officers not to bring unsupported or false cases against members of the public.

Sri Lanka Mirror reports that, when the matter was heard on October 21, police legal officers presented guidelines dated October 19, issued by the deputy inspector general overseeing the Western Province North Range and applying to Gampaha, Kelaniya and Negombo police divisions. The magistrate asked who had received the court direction and who had issued the guidelines; the officers said the direction was addressed to the IGP and the guidelines came from the regional deputy inspector general.

Sri Lanka Mirror says the magistrate questioned whether instructions limited to particular areas fulfilled a direction to circulate guidance to police nationwide, and ordered two case files sent to the Court of Appeal. It reports that the files concerned a person accused of possessing drugs, allegedly following false information from officers in the Gampaha Police Anti-Corruption Unit. WhatNews separately reports that the magistrate rejected a request by the police legal division for a fresh order requiring the IGP to issue a circular. The reports describe a referral for proceedings, not a final Court of Appeal decision.

Written automatically by AI from the outlets’ own reports, and not reviewed by an editor. It can be wrong — the original report is the authority.