Gotabaya Rajapaksa appeals to the Supreme Court over rejected anti-arrest writ

On 9 October 2026 Rajapaksa filed an appeal in the Supreme Court challenging the Court of Appeal's 1 October rejection of his writ petition. He asks the Supreme Court to set that order aside and to restrain the authorities from arresting and detaining him under the Prevention of Terrorism Act in connection with the CID investigation into the 2019 Easter Sunday attacks.

The IGP, CID officials and the Attorney General are named as respondents. No Supreme Court case number or hearing date was reported.

The writ proceeding is no longer concluded at the Court of Appeal: an appeal is now pending before the Supreme Court. Filing an appeal does not itself protect Rajapaksa from arrest unless the Supreme Court grants relief, and no interim protection has been reported. No arrest or detention has been reported. The appeal concerns his own protective litigation; it is not a charge or a finding about the attacks, and allegations connecting him to them remain contested and unproven.