Sri Lanka, April 2 -- Two professionals yesterday filed a Fundamental Rights petition in Supreme Court seeking an Interim Order suspending the proposed Kurunegala-Dambulla-Habarana Railway Extension Project.

The petitioners Mangalasiri Amarasinghe, an anesthetic doctor by profession and Kamal Rupasinghe, an Electrical Superintendent by profession filed this petition naming the Conservator General of Forests, the Central Environmental Authority, Transport and Civil Aviation Ministry Secretary, the Wildlife and Forest Conservation Minister and the Attorney General as respondents.

The petitioners maintained that the proposed Kurunegala-Habrana Railway extension project would cause irreparable loss to their livelihoods and an adverse and ir...