SC told of orders preventing X-Press Pearl local agents from leaving SL

2026-01-26 - 11:37

The Attorney General today (Jan. 26) informed the Supreme Court that the Colombo Magistrate’s Court and the Colombo High Court ordered to prevent the directors of the local agent company of the MV X-Press Pearl from leaving the country. The declaration was made by Additional Solicitor General Nerin Pulle, who appeared on behalf of the Attorney General, when the Fundamental Rights (FR) petitions filed regarding the incident were taken up today to examine the progress of the implementation of the court’s previous rulings. The Singapore-flagged container vessel MV X-Press Pearl caught fire in May 2021 off Colombo Port and burned for nearly two weeks while carrying 81 containers of hazardous chemicals, including 25 tonnes of nitric acid.