A day after Gotabaya Rajapaksa resigned as the President of Sri Lanka, the Supreme Court banned his two brothers from leaving the country till July 28, on Friday, according to sources.
Former Prime Minister Mahindra Rajapaksa and former minister Basil Rajapaksa were barred from leaving the crisis-hit island nation.
The interim order was given by the court after the petition filed by Transparency International Sri Lanka (TISL) and three others against the two politicians was taken up for hearing.
Earlier in the day, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim President until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after protests against his government for mishandling the economy that bankrupted the country.
Wickremesinghe, 73, was sworn in as the acting president of Sri Lanka before Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya, the prime minister's office said in a statement.