Navy interdicts Yoshitha

With effect from yesterday the 28th instant the Commander of the Navy has issued to Yoshitha Rajapaksa letter of interdiction from the Navy.

The Navy media spokesman Captain Akram Alavi had stated that on the request made by the Police criminal investigating unit to the ministry of defence this decision had been taken.

The officials of the Navy had added that owing to the findings of the investigations into the activities of the CSN television network they had arrived at this decision to interdict him.

In the meantime the  authorities of the Colombo Magistrate courts had declined the bail application made as an interim order on behalf of Yoshitha Rajapaksa who is in prison.