The minutes of two board meetings of the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA), a respondent in the Lanka Marine Services Limited (LMSL) fundamental rights petition case, reveal that the then SLPA Chairman Parakrama Dissanayake had been pressurized by certain persons into signing the privatization agreement.
I.L.M. Mohammed Cassim may not have dreamt his small trading business which he established in 1872 in Galle Fort would see its fifth generation – but it did. Mr. Cassim, who had four sons decided to name his business after his oldest son, M.C. Abdul Rahim and also include ‘brothers’ in it, at the time. As such he called it M.C. Abdul Rahims and Brothers.
