Sri Lanka, March 4 -- The Supreme Court has dismissed a Fundamental Rights (FR) petition filed by Saman Ratnayake, a former Additional Secretary to the Ministry of Health, seeking a ruling that his fundamental human rights were violated through 'unlawfully' arresting and remanding him in custody by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) over the substandard human intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) procurement case.

This order was issued when the relevant petition was taken up before a three-member Supreme Court judge bench comprising Justices Gamini Amarasekara, Kumuduni Wickremesinghe and Sobhitha Rajakaruna today (04).

On March 01, 2024, the then Additional Secretary to the Ministry of Health Saman Ratnayake was arrested by the C...