No travel ban would be effective any further on Rajapaksa's, the SC decides.

The Supreme Court today announced that the travel ban imposed on former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and former Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa would not be effective any further in connection with the Fundamental Rights petitions filed over financial irregularities and mismanagement of the Sri Lankan economy.

The Supreme Court's five-judge bench, headed by Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya, ordered the Supreme Court registrar to notify the fact that no travel ban is effective any further against Mahinda Rajapaksa and Basil Rajapaksa, who has been named as the respondents in these petitions.

The Supreme Court made this order in connection with a Fundamental Rights petition filed by Sri Lankan swimmer and coach Julian Bolling, former Chairman of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce Chandra Jayaratne, Transparency International, and Jehan Canaga Retna. In this petition, the petitioners are seeking an order to take legal action against those responsible for financial irregularities and mismanagement of the Sri Lankan economy.