AG Says No Legal Obstacle to Table Bond Report in Parliament.

Speaker Karu Jayasuriya summoned the Attorney General Jayantha Jayasuriya yesterday to clarify matters related to tabling bond report in Parliament. AG met  the Party Leaders and informed them  that there is no legal  obstacle in tabling the report of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry on Bond issue in Parliament.

Furthert, he told the Party Leaders that he had at no point advised against the tabling of the commission report, but only recommended sending the copies to the Heads of the relevant authorities to take necessary action.

Parliamentary sources said a copy of the report was not received by Parliament even yesterday and that Parliament was unlikely to be convened again before January 23.