Press briefing of Cabinet Decision taken on 2021-02-15

Amending the Code of Criminal Procedure Act, No.15 of 1979 (Empowering the Magistrate to visit Police Stations)

- Approval of the Cabinet has been granted to amend the Code of Criminal Procedure Act. No.15 of 1979, empowering the Magistrate to visit police stations situated within the judicial division to which he is appointed, enabling him to supervise the suspect who is being held in police custody in such police station at least once in every month. Accordingly, the proposal made by the Minister of Justice to publish the draft Bill prepared by the Legal Draftsman in the Government Gazette and to present same thereafter in Parliament, was approved by the Cabinet.