Sri Lanka, Oct. 13 -- Anuradhapura Chief Magistrate Siyapath Sasindu Wickramaratne today issued travel bans against three police officers who served at the Anuradhapura Headquarters Police at the time and a former Municipal Councillor, in connection with the fatal shooting of Iron Ranasinghe, alias 'SF Lokka', near the Dahaiyagama railway crossing in Anuradhapura.

The Chief Magistrate instructed the Court Registrar to forward the order immediately to the Controller General of Immigration and Emigration.

Accordingly, the travel ban applies to former Anuradhapura Headquarters Chief Inspector Sanjeeva Mahanama, Sub-Inspector R. M. Balasuriya, Police Sergeant Douglas Appuhamy, and former Anuradhapura Municipal Councillor Ravindra Bandara. ...