COLOMBO, Sri LAnka — Lawmakers in Sri Lanka voted Tuesday to fireside the nation’s police chief for misconduct and gross abuse of energy, making him the island nation’s first inspector-general to be impeached.
Within the 225-member parliament, 117 lawmakers voted to fireside Deshabandu Tennakoon. Nobody opposed, whereas one member abstained.
The removing got here after a parliament-appointed committee inquired into the allegations towards him and final month launched a report that discovered him responsible.
Tennakoon, who oversaw 85,000 law enforcement officials, confronted fees of sending a workforce of armed officers for an unlawful raid in 2023 that triggered a gun battle with a separate police unit in southern Sri Lanka. One officer was killed.
Tennakoon was appointed police chief in 2023 by then-President Ranil Wickremesinghe, regardless of protests from then-opposition lawmakers and civil rights activists who claimed he was not match for the put up.
There was no fast remark from Tennakoon.