Sri Lanka Police Department today announced that IGP Pujith Jayasundara had not issued an order restricting sending daily Police news to private media institutions.  

In the statement it said, “Several media outlets had reported stating that the IGP had instructed the daily updates be sent only to State media institutions”.

The National Police Commission (NPC) Secretary Ariyadasa Cooray said that the Police was under obligation to provide news to private media institutions, especially when the Right to Information (RTI) Act is in effect in the country yesterday. 

The Police had earlier said that the Police news would not be sent daily to private media institutions through emails with effect from December 21.