Lanka government ignores SC on CJ impeachment move
7 Jan 2013 6:21 AM IST
The Sri Lankan government will go ahead with the impeachment of the country's first woman Chief Justice despite mounting global pressure to avoid a clash with the judiciary, a pro-government paper said on Sunday.
‘The drama over the ongoing attempt to impeach Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake is expected to end later this week with Parliament debating and voting on the report of the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) which found her guilty of three of the five charges examined,’ a well informed source was quoted by the Sunday Island as saying.
‘It will be all over by January 11,’ the source told the paper. ‘The writing is on the wall. Once Parliament votes on the resolution and an address is made to the President, she will be removed from office the next day’, the pro-government newspaper said. The paper said that there will be no change of stance by the government despite mounting pressure both locally and externally to defuse the situation by taking a step back. This is inspite of the Supreme Court's constitutional interpretation that the select committee which probed and found Banadaranayake guilty was illegal.
This makes clear that the route of determining misbehaviour through Parliamentary Select Committee process is not lawful.
‘The drama over the ongoing attempt to impeach Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake is expected to end later this week with Parliament debating and voting on the report of the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) which found her guilty of three of the five charges examined,’ a well informed source was quoted by the Sunday Island as saying.
‘It will be all over by January 11,’ the source told the paper. ‘The writing is on the wall. Once Parliament votes on the resolution and an address is made to the President, she will be removed from office the next day’, the pro-government newspaper said. The paper said that there will be no change of stance by the government despite mounting pressure both locally and externally to defuse the situation by taking a step back. This is inspite of the Supreme Court's constitutional interpretation that the select committee which probed and found Banadaranayake guilty was illegal.
This makes clear that the route of determining misbehaviour through Parliamentary Select Committee process is not lawful.
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