Sri Lanka, June 11 -- The Court of Appeal today (11) postponed further consideration of a writ petition filed by former State Intelligence Service Director Suresh Salley until July 10.

Salley had sought a writ order to invalidate the detention order issued under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) following his arrest by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID).

The petition was taken up before a bench comprising Court of Appeal President Justice Rohantha Abeysuriya and Justice Priyantha Fernando.

Appearing on behalf of Salley, President's Counsel Sanjeewa Jayawardena presented submissions outlining how the ideology of the ISIS terrorist group had allegedly operated within Sri Lanka.

He told court that intelligence had revealed 3...