<span style="color: #313131;">In Sri Lanka, former finance minister Ravi Karunanayake on Tuesday filed a writ petition in the court of appeal seeking the nullification of arrest warrant issued against him in bond scam case. The writ application argued that the Colombo magistrate arrest warrant based on the police report is against the law. In addition, he has appealed to the Court to deliver an order revoking the Attorney General's directive to the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to obtain a warrant for his arrest. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #313131;">The Attorney General had ordered the Acting IGP to obtain warrants for the arrest of eleven suspects including Ravi Karunanayake and former central bank Governor Arjuna Mahendran on charges of criminal misappropriation, fraud and mismanagement of the market. A Magistrate court last  week issued warrants for the immediate arrest of the suspects in connection with the criminal offenses committed at the bond auctions held in 2016, allegedly causing billions of loss to the exchequer.</span><br />