{"id":160976,"date":"2016-04-19T16:40:12","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T11:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=160976"},"modified":"2016-04-20T13:01:10","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T07:31:10","slug":"gammanpila-says-ranawaka-voted-for-pujith-to-dodge-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/gammanpila-says-ranawaka-voted-for-pujith-to-dodge-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Gammanpila Says Ranawaka Voted For Pujith To Dodge Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parliamentarian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Udaya+Gammanpila&amp;x=14&amp;y=3\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Udaya Gammanpila<\/span><\/a> has cried foul over yesterday\u2019s decision by the Constitutional Council to nominate senior DIG <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Pujith+Jayasundara&amp;x=16&amp;y=6\">Pujith Jayasundara<\/a><\/span> for the post of Inspector General of Police (IGP).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_103071\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/morality-of-navi-pillays-visit\/udaya-gammanpila\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-103071\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-103071\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-103071\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Udaya-Gammanpila-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Udaya Gammanpila\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Udaya-Gammanpila-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Udaya-Gammanpila-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-103071\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Udaya Gammanpila<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Speaking at a news conference, Gammanpila, said that the Constitutional Council\u2019s decision was both \u2018illegal and unethical\u2019 because a member of the Council, who is currently being investigated by the police was also at the meeting to vote for the next IGP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMinister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Champika+Ranawaka&amp;x=7&amp;y=5\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Champika Ranawaka<\/span><\/a>, who is a member of the Council, is currently under investigation, and so it is not ethical for him to sit at the Constitutional Council meeting to select the next IGP,\u201d Gammanpila pointed out.<\/p>\n<p>Gammanpila charged that by Ranawaka voting in favour of Jayasundara, it was time for Jayasundara to show his gratitude by sweeping the investigation against Ranawaka under the carpet.<\/p>\n<p>Ranawaka, who is President Maithripala Sirisena\u2019s nominee to the Constitutional Council, is currently under investigation for being allegedly being involved in a hit and run accident in Rajagiriya, which left one person critically injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":103071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2186,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-featured-news","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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