JSC secretary to be sacked for opposing Namal!

 Tuesday, 10 December 2013 

Secretary of the Judicial Services Commission Sisira Ratnayake is to be replaced by Khema Swarnadhipathi, a very close supporter of MP Namal Rajapaksa, after the former rejected a transfer list of magistrates and district court judges sent by the young parliamentarian.

According to reports reaching us, the then additional secretary to the president Sepala Ratnayake, who is now positioned at the Sri Lankan high commission in London, had summoned Colombo Fort magistrate Thilina Gamage to Temple Trees for a special discussion on transfers of judicial service officers.

A list of very close associates of the president has been prepared for their transfer as a decision has been taken to hold a nationally significant election next year.

MP Namal Rajapaksa had sent that list to JSC secretary Sisira Ratnayake through the then additional secretary to the president.

Strongly rejecting the list, the JSC secretary has said that he could not take a decision on his own and asked that the list be approved by the chief justice, who is the head of the JSC.

When the list was given to the CJ, he had reprimanded and expelled Sepala Ratnayake, also a lawyer. In a rage over the incident, MP Namal Rajapkasa has ordered that the JSC secretary be immediately replaced by Khema Swarnadhipathi, and Thilina Gamage appointed the deputy.

He has also ordered that the deputy and additional secretaries and the entire staff of the JSC be transferred.