MaRa makes a pickle of the judiciary : makes fanciful appointments – judges complain to CJ
(Lanka-e-News -04.Feb.2014, 11.30PM) Following the mysterious death of justice Sriskandaraja who died under suspicious circumstances , the Rajapakse regime is making preparations to make a stew of the supreme court using its stooges and henchmen , and a pickle of the appeal court.
As Lanka e news revealed already in an earlier report, arrangements are being made to appoint judge Sarath Abrew , who is in the 7 th rung in the seniority ladder of the appeal court but a number one crooked crony of the Rajapakses to the position of a Supreme court (SC) judge . It is significant to note that this appointment is be made despite his putrid antecedence of charges against Abrew of assaulting a police officer of his security detail ; attempting to commit sexual abuse on an employee in his house and so forth.
Although Suhada Gamlath was to be given this appointment , this had been changed and Abrew is being preferred finally for obvious reasons. Suhada Gamlath had been appointed as a SC judge of Fiji Island. In any case Gamlath had fallen victim to Rajapakses’ characteristic foul play . After obtaining his resignation from the attorney general department on the promise that he will be appointed as the AG to Fiji Island , he had been given a different appointment as the SC judge .
The AG of Fiji Island receives a higher salary than a SC judge. Besides , an AG’s next promotion is directly to post of chief justice. Gamlath is now deprived of those benefits.
Fiji Island offers these positions to SL because in Fiji Island is a military regime that dovetails into the needs and the despotic rule of MaRa’s regime. Previously , that country had Australian judges, but after the military regime took over , due to the controversial conduct of the military regime , the Commonwealth imposed sanctions.
Meanwhile , just as Lanka e news revealed earlier , a junior lawyer Shavindra Fernando of the AG department is also to be given a double promotion and is to be appointed as the President of the appeal court. But prior to that he has to be made a President counsel , and thereafter solicitor general.
All these moves were expedited and he was made a solicitor general . Because AG Palitha Fernando delayed this , he was treated to a barrage of foul abuse by Mahinda Rajapakse using his choicest favorite language .
In other words the President had been in an unholy haste to make that appointment.
Six appeal court judges who were aggrieved at these changes introduced by Rajapakse which are making a pickle of the appeal court and a stew of the SC had met the chief justice Peiris , another notorious thief of justice, and expressed their woes. Peiris had only told them the President does not have faith in the appeal court. One of the judges had then retorted ,‘Sir , if judiciary is going to be made a pickle like this , the people will lose faith in the sacrosanct judiciary.’
It is very evident to all including the judiciary that the Rajapakse regime is introducing all the deplorable and degradable changes to the judiciary appointing its crooked cronies and sordid judges according to its fancy to ensure that its Kangaroo court is fully established and functioning before the resolution against SL is adopted at the Geneva conference.
(Lanka-e-News -04.Feb.2014, 11.30PM) Following the mysterious death of justice Sriskandaraja who died under suspicious circumstances , the Rajapakse regime is making preparations to make a stew of the supreme court using its stooges and henchmen , and a pickle of the appeal court.
As Lanka e news revealed already in an earlier report, arrangements are being made to appoint judge Sarath Abrew , who is in the 7 th rung in the seniority ladder of the appeal court but a number one crooked crony of the Rajapakses to the position of a Supreme court (SC) judge . It is significant to note that this appointment is be made despite his putrid antecedence of charges against Abrew of assaulting a police officer of his security detail ; attempting to commit sexual abuse on an employee in his house and so forth.
Although Suhada Gamlath was to be given this appointment , this had been changed and Abrew is being preferred finally for obvious reasons. Suhada Gamlath had been appointed as a SC judge of Fiji Island. In any case Gamlath had fallen victim to Rajapakses’ characteristic foul play . After obtaining his resignation from the attorney general department on the promise that he will be appointed as the AG to Fiji Island , he had been given a different appointment as the SC judge .
The AG of Fiji Island receives a higher salary than a SC judge. Besides , an AG’s next promotion is directly to post of chief justice. Gamlath is now deprived of those benefits.
Fiji Island offers these positions to SL because in Fiji Island is a military regime that dovetails into the needs and the despotic rule of MaRa’s regime. Previously , that country had Australian judges, but after the military regime took over , due to the controversial conduct of the military regime , the Commonwealth imposed sanctions.
Meanwhile , just as Lanka e news revealed earlier , a junior lawyer Shavindra Fernando of the AG department is also to be given a double promotion and is to be appointed as the President of the appeal court. But prior to that he has to be made a President counsel , and thereafter solicitor general.
All these moves were expedited and he was made a solicitor general . Because AG Palitha Fernando delayed this , he was treated to a barrage of foul abuse by Mahinda Rajapakse using his choicest favorite language .
In other words the President had been in an unholy haste to make that appointment.
Six appeal court judges who were aggrieved at these changes introduced by Rajapakse which are making a pickle of the appeal court and a stew of the SC had met the chief justice Peiris , another notorious thief of justice, and expressed their woes. Peiris had only told them the President does not have faith in the appeal court. One of the judges had then retorted ,‘Sir , if judiciary is going to be made a pickle like this , the people will lose faith in the sacrosanct judiciary.’
It is very evident to all including the judiciary that the Rajapakse regime is introducing all the deplorable and degradable changes to the judiciary appointing its crooked cronies and sordid judges according to its fancy to ensure that its Kangaroo court is fully established and functioning before the resolution against SL is adopted at the Geneva conference.
