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The Inter University Students Federation and Ceylon Teacher's Union (CTU) today filed 15 Habeas Corpus petitions in Court of Appeal seeking an interim order directing authorities to produce 15 protestors before Court.

The petitioners, the members of IUSF and CTU have filed these petitions naming IGP Chandana Wickremaratne, Senior Deputy Inspector General of Police Deshabandu Thennakoon, Officer-In-Charge of Slave Island Police Station, OIC of Thalangama Police Station, Director General of Health Services Dr.Asela Gunawardena and several others as respondents.

The petitioners said the protestors gathered at Battaramulla junction on the 8th of July, against the proposed Kotalawela Defence Academy Bill. They stated that around 11 am, a group of police used excessive force to disperse the protestors and arrested the corpus together with around 30 persons.

The petitioners stated that the protestors who were released on bail by Colombo Magistrate then forcibly taken to quarantine centre in Mullaitivu without any presence of the health authority or antigen test or PCR test.

The petitioner stated that police requested an order from Magistrate to send them to a quarantine centre but it was rejected by the Magistrate.