{"id":163244,"date":"2016-05-31T18:10:32","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T12:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=163244"},"modified":"2016-05-31T18:10:32","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T12:40:32","slug":"public-service-commission-says-anusha-palpita-should-be-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/public-service-commission-says-anusha-palpita-should-be-suspended\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Service Commission Says Anusha Palpita Should Be Suspended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Public Service Commission said today that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Anusha+Palpita&amp;x=12&amp;y=9\">Anusha Palpita<\/a><\/span>, who was appointed as the Additional Secretary to the Ministry of Home Affairs, should be suspended with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_163245\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/public-service-commission-says-anusha-palpita-should-be-suspended\/anusha-palpita-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-163245\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-163245\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-163245\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Anusha-Palpita-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Anusha Palpita\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Anusha-Palpita-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Anusha-Palpita-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-163245\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anusha Palpita<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Incidentally the announcement comes, despite Home Affairs Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Vajira+Abeywardena&amp;x=11&amp;y=7\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Vajira Abeywardena<\/span><\/a> claiming that Palpita was appointed to the ministry by the Public Service Commission and the Sri Lanka Administrative Service Division after he requested that steps be taken to fill in several existing vacancies at his ministry.<\/p>\n<p>Palpita, the ex-Director General of the Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (TRC) is embroiled in corruption charges, and is currently out on bail over the misuse of funds at the TRC amounting to Rs. 620 million which was allegedly used in former President Mahinda Rajapaksa\u2019s presidential election campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after his appointment to the Home Affairs Ministry, Abeywardena defended Palpita saying that \u2018everybody is innocent, until proven guilty.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this rate, all ministry secretaries must be guilty then. Even everyone who worked for Basil Rajapaksa has been produced in courts, but that doesn\u2019t mean they are guilty. Yes, there are charges against him (Palpita), but nothing has been proven,\u201d Abeywardena told the Colombo Telegraph on May 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":163245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Public Service Commission Says Anusha Palpita Should Be Suspended - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/public-service-commission-says-anusha-palpita-should-be-suspended\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Public Service Commission Says Anusha Palpita Should Be Suspended - 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