AG on "forced registration"

3 March 2011 07:19 am

The Attorney General today made an undertaking in Supreme Court to suspend the forced registration of residents in North by the military.

A group of TNA Parliamentarians earlier filed a fundamental rights violation petition seeking to stop what they called ‘forced registration’ of residents of Jaffna and Kilinochchi districts allegedly by the Security Forces.

Jaffna district Parliamentarians Mavai Senathirajah, Suresh Premachandran, Appathurai Vinayagamoorthy, ivagnanam Shritharan and Eswarapatham Saravanapavan filed their petition through Attorney Mohan Balendra.

They cited Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, Jaffna Security Forces Commander Mahinda Hathurusinghe, Army Spokesman Udaya Madawala, Jaffna Government Agent Ms Imelda Sukumar and the Attorney General as Respondents. (SSS)