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Sri Lanka's top court rejects rights hurdle for India-funded ID project
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....ri Lanka's top court rejects rights hurdle for India-funded ID project<BR>PTI News<BR>Dated:- 17-10-2025<BR>PTI<BR>Colombo, Oct 17 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Friday rejected two fundamental rights pet....
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....itions seeking to invalidate a pact signed between Sri Lanka and India for the implementation of a digital identity card project in the island nation. A three-member Supreme Court bench headed by Chi....
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....ef Justice Preethi Padman Surasena accepted preliminary objections raised by the Attorney General, stating that the petitions could not proceed further. The petition filed by opposition politician ....
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....Wimal Weerawansa claimed that his fundamental rights had been violated by the government's refusal to make the project subject to parliamentary scrutiny or a public debate. He also argued that the ex....
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....posure of Sri Lankans’ data to foreign entities posed a threat to national security. The bench decided not to examine the petitions regarding the digital identity card project, and dismissed them. ....
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.... The MoU for the project was signed in 2022. PTI CORR ZH ZH<BR> News - Press release - PIB....