Sri Lanka, April 30 -- The Court of Appeal today (30) scheduled the hearing of the petition filed by Maxwell de Silva, who served as the Secretary of the National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka (NOC), requesting an order to invalidate the decision made to suspend him from the position.

However, Court rejected the request to issue an interim injunction to prevent the execution of the decision made by the Minister of Sports to suspend Maxwell de Silva from functioning as the Secretary of the National Olympic Committee.

The order was issued by Justice Damith Thotawatte with the concurrence of Justice Dhammika Ganepola, after considering the petition filed by Maxwell de Silva challenging the legality of the decision made by the Minister of ...