Attorney General’s dept. or yawning and sleeping General’s dept.?

(Lanka-e-News -14.May.2016, 12.20PM) Lanka e news on 10 th of May posted a report captioned ‘   ‘‘3 months since new AG took office; Rajapakses and brigand still free ! AG dept. suffering from somnolence and somnambulism !

In that report there were three charges leveled . Two of those charges are tenable and pursued while the other is being dropped ,LeN wishes to reveal.

The two charges that are tenable and the evidence in support are hereunder …

1. The CID has concluded its investigations fully , and the file has been forwarded to the Attorney General (AG) over a year ago , yet the latter has delayed filing action in court . The evidence in support are hereunder .. 

In the investigation into the assets of former chairman of Ports Authority ,  Priyath Bandu Wickremamuni, the AG department  file Ref.No. is CR 1/271/15 pertaining to this investigation. The file was handed over to the AG’s department after investigations on 2015-05 -05 . As at today,one year and one week had elapsed since the file was handed over ,yet no action whatsoever has been taken by the  AG’s department .This lapse is unpardonable under any circumstances. 

2. The investigation into the diplomatic passport obtained after submitting false information by Wimal Weerawansa M.P. The file ref. No . at the AG’s department is  1 &E 284 /2015 and the  date on which the file was handed to AG’s department is  2015-12-14 in this connection. Still no action has been taken to file legal proceedings in court.

So far there has been no notification that there are any lapses in the investigations ,meaning that  the investigation is faultless. It is only the filing of proceedings  in court which is  the responsibility of the AG now. Hence such delays cannot be excused or pardoned. These cases  must be duly filed even working overtime by commencing a system to work in the night with a view to  clear the backlog , unless of course the AG;s department too is eager to toe the line of the bogus recruiting agency. 

If  employees  are working in the night in factories , why cannot a government department similarly work in the night ? Certainly there is nothing barring them from working in the night.

In the news report dated 10 th May of ours , it was mentioned the wife of an assistant of the AG is a legal officer in the Coca Cola Co. and the police file pertaining to the investigation into the release of pollutants by Coca Cola Co. into the Kelani ganga had gone missing at the AG’s department . We are hereby withdrawing this statement .

Though she is the wife of an assistant of the AG , that  is a civil case , and this AG’s assistant is only responsible for criminal cases. Therefore he is not linked to the Coca Cola file ,and that file is not lost.

In the circumstances , if the officer concerned have been hurt in any way owing to our report we tender our profound apologies to the , while also amending the report as afore-noted.

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