Seventeen days before his retirement, the Sri Lankan Police Chief Mahinda Balasuriya has decided to go on ‘priority leave’. The leave request came after President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Tuesday appointed a one-man committee to probe the violent incident in the Katunayake Free Trade Zone.Speaking to AIR, Police Spokesperson DIG Prashantha Jayakkody said that the Police Chief wants to pursue his higher studies in Russia and that the leave has been applied in that context. He will subsequently retire from 18th of this month. Police and the Free Trade Zone workers protesting the proposed pension scheme clashed in Katunayake on Monday where 15 police personnel including a Deputy Inspector General and more than 250 employees of the free trade zone were injured in the violence.According to reports, one of the protestor , allegedly after getting gun shot injury in the clash is in critical condition. The police Spokesperson said that a Chief Inspector & Inspector of Police attached to the Negambo Police Division were arrested by the CID over the clash at Katunayake Free Trade Zone (FTZ) incident.A retired Supreme Court judge Mahanama Thilakarathna has been appointed to probe and submit a report on the incident within five days. The Sri Lankan government website reported that the committee is also empowered to make recommendations against authority, if there is any that the police overacted beyond the legal margins.