Sri Lanka's National Police Commission said it did not have the legal power to investigate the Inspector General of the Police over a video showing him assaulting two junior members of staff.
"The NPC can investigate and take action only on the police service but not the IGP," the Commission's secretary Ariyadasa Cooray told the Sunday Leader, adding that it did not have the legal power to do so.
The video shows IGP Pujith Jayasundara manhandling and making threatening gestures to the two junior officers outside a lift at the police headquarters.
The footage, which was published Lanka-E-News, was captured on CCTV in April this year.
Dismissing the assault as a trivial matter, the police spokesperson, Ruwan Gunasekara said the police chief had been reprimanding the men for not obeying the police department's rules on morning meditation for Buddhists.