{"id":132373,"date":"2014-11-01T19:47:25","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T14:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=132373"},"modified":"2014-11-12T19:45:33","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T14:15:33","slug":"uk-high-commissioner-vacancy-mahinda-wants-shiranee-but-gota-pushes-for-colomboge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/uk-high-commissioner-vacancy-mahinda-wants-shiranee-but-gota-pushes-for-colomboge\/","title":{"rendered":"UK High Commissioner Vacancy: Mahinda Wants Shiranee But Gota Pushes For Colomboge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The talk of the capital is that the President Mahinda Rajapaksa wants to appoint retired\u00a0Supreme Court Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Shiranee+Tilakawardane&amp;x=11&amp;y=1\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Shiranee Tilakawardane<\/span><\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0as the new Hight\u00a0<\/span>Commissioner<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0to the United Kingdom.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_65372\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Shiranee-Tilakawardane.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-65372\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-65372\" alt=\"Justice Shiranee Tilakawardane\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Shiranee-Tilakawardane-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Shiranee-Tilakawardane-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Shiranee-Tilakawardane.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-65372\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justice Shiranee Tilakawardane<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Justice Shiranee Tilakawardane <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/expose-disgraceful-justice-justice-shiranee-t-gave-false-evidence-before-parliamentary-select-committee\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">has given false evidence<\/span><\/a> before Parliamentary Select Committee on impeaching the Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake. As Colombo Telegraph reported earlier, there was a finding by the infamous Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) that the case commonly known as the \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Trillium+Case&amp;x=11&amp;y=9\">Trillium Case<\/a><\/span>\u201d was wrongly taken before a bench presided by CJ Bandaranayake by CJ Banadaranayake herself.\u00a0To arrive at this finding the PSC mainly relied on the evidence of Justice\u00a0Shiranee\u00a0Thilakawardene\u00a0and PSC stated in its report that they believe and accept Justice Thilakawardene\u2019s evidence\u00a0<em>in toto<\/em>\u00a0without hesitance.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the President&#8217;s brother, Secretary to the Ministry of Defence\u00a0Gotabaya Rajapaksa is pushing for Ex-Navy Chief Jayanath Colombage instead of Shiranee, Colombo Telegraph reliably learns.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related posts;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a title=\"High Commissioner Nonis Quits After Assault By Sajin Vass\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/high-commissioner-nonis-quits-after-assault-by-sajin-vaas\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">High Commissioner Nonis Quits After Assault By Sajin Vass<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":65602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,6969,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-popular-stories","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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