Srilanka, May 28 -- The Supreme Court has scheduled September 8 to hear petitions challenging the appointment of Deshabandu Tennakoon as the Inspector General of Police (IGP), alleging it was made without formal approval from the Constitutional Council and is therefore unconstitutional.

The case was taken up today (28) before a bench comprising Justices Janak de Silva, Sobitha Rajakaruna, and Sampath Wijeratne.

The petitions were filed by several parties, including the Archbishop of Colombo, His Eminence Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith, the Young Journalists' Association, and nine others. The petitioners argue that then-President Ranil Wickremesinghe's appointment of Tennakoon bypassed required constitutional procedures.

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