Presidential award to Buwaneka Aluvihare for directing ‘Duminda comedy’!

 Thursday, 05 December 2013 

A clear example of the extent to which Sri Lanka’s judiciary has deteriorated is yesterday’s appointment of additional solicitor general Buwaneka Aluvihare as a judge in the Supreme Court after he fully directed, on behalf of the attorney general, the comedy by using the law in prostitution, in which the murderer of Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra has been made an aggrieved party, a veteran legal professional told us. 

Mr. Premachandra, the president’s advisor on trade union affairs and three others were killed in October 2011 in Mulleriyawa.

A trusted henchman of the defence secretary, Buwaneka Aluvihare has left the AG’s Department with a big black mark by plotting steps gradually to save Duminda Silva at the defence secretary’s request. Falling to an unbelievably lowly depth that does not befit his additional solicitor general position, he had personally met CID’s Shani Abeysekara and Merryl Ranjan Lamahewa at the defence ministry and told them how they should record witness accounts and give evidence before the court, said the veteran legal professional.

Buwaneka Aluvihare fully claims the infamous credit for doctoring the ‘eyewitness account’ of Bharatha Lakshman’s driver, the main witness in the murder, to ‘heresy’ in order to make it to the advantage to the accused. If Duminda Silva is acquitted even without being indicted, he should worship a photograph of Buwaneka Aluvihare, said the veteran legal professional in a fully dejected tone.