Jaffna's High Court judge M Ilancheliyan has ordered Sri Lanka's army commander Lieutenant General Mahesh Senanayake to appear in court on January 18 in relation to disappearances in army custody in 1996, Ceylon Today reported.
Twenty-four Tamil youths disappeared after they were taken into army custody on July 19, 1996 at Navakkuli.
At a hearing on November 9, the case relating to 12 of the 24 disappeared was heard. Three people were accused in the petition: the army commander, the attorney general and the then commander of Navakkuli army camp. The three men were ordered by Justice Ilancheliyan to appear in court.
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