Supreme Court stays Special HC’s trial against Gotabaya
Posted on July 25th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana
The Supreme Court today (25) issued an order preventing trial at Special High Court against Gotabaya Rajapaksa over the D.A. Rajapaksa Museum case till the 1st of October, says Ada Derana reporter.
The order was delivered by the Supreme Court three-judge bench consisting of Justices Buwaneka Aluwihare, Gamini Amarasekara and S. Thurairajah considering an appeal filed by Gotabaya Rajapaksa.
The case against the former Defence Secretary and six others was filed by the Attorney General, for allegedly misappropriating state funds amounting to Rs 33.9 million during the construction of the D.A. Rajapaksa Museum and Memorial in Medamulana.
The Permanent High Court at Bar had rejected the preliminary objections filed by Gotabaya Rajapaksa stating that it does not have the jurisdiction to hear the case.
The former defence secretary then lodged a revision petition with the Court of Appeal seeking an order suspending the rejection of his appeal. However the Appeals Court ruled that it does not have the jurisdiction to hear the revision petition, hence, rejected it without taking it up.
Gotabaya Rajapaksa then filed a special appeal petition with the Supreme Court challenging the Appeals Court verdict.
This special appeal petition was taken up before the Supreme Court three-judge bench today (25).
Considering the submissions by defence attorney President’s Counsel Romesh de Silva, the Supreme Court judge bench granted permission to hear the relevant petition.
Fixing the petition for support on October 1st, the Supreme Court judge bench issued an order preventing the hearing of the filed before the Special High Court until the Supreme Court’s ruling is delivered.
July 25th, 2019 at 10:22 pm
I see no problem in honouring parents of two leaders who ended an ‘unwinnable’ war for the country which is definitely a historic hing. Similarly someone has finished off a guy who could throw some balls here and there but did not know who he was ( to brag about like Daskon or was it something else ?).
Yet again I saw on TV yesterday another guy challenging the Sinhalas not realizing who he is.
July 26th, 2019 at 6:22 pm
I forgot to add that the same ‘smarakaya’ will remind Sinhalas about the handing over of Wilpattu and the East to Wahabis to do as they wish and the imposition of Sharia law on SL.
Perhaps the next election will prove the saying that Sinhalas have only two weeks of memory.
July 26th, 2019 at 6:54 pm
If war was ‘unwinnable’ we had better hand over the country to Cuba, who are still surviving despite USA at ‘swimmable’ distance.
It was made to look like ‘unwinnable’ and people were brain washed to an extent that most thought it is better to had over the North to LTTE. Beggar’s wound was finally cured by doctors who took over begging.