{"id":212041,"date":"2020-07-23T12:55:51","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T07:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=212041"},"modified":"2020-08-01T00:58:43","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T19:28:43","slug":"contempt-motion-against-me-and-three-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/contempt-motion-against-me-and-three-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Contempt Motion Against Me And Three Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">By <a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=S.+Ratnajeevan+H.+Hoole\">S. Ratnajeevan H. Hoole<\/a> &#8211;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_151208\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Hoole.SRH439.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-151208\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-151208\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Hoole.SRH439-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Hoole.SRH439-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Hoole.SRH439-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-151208\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prof. S. Ratnajeevan H. Hoole<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I refer to the Daily\u00a0Mirror story of 21 July, 2020 (pages 1 and 2, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymirror.lk\/front_page\/Summons-on-Prof-Hoole-3-others-for-contempt-of-court\/238-192296\">Summons on Prof. Hoole, 3 others for contempt of court<\/a>&#8220;). In the e-version,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>the reporter is identified as T. Farook Thajudeen.<\/p>\n<p>I am writing only because many have called expressing concern over the erroneous story fed to the newspapers by the Senior Counsel of some Pastors as stated in the article itself, and the suspicion that the expensive legal team may be politically funded. I am also writing because Daily Mirror has not published my correction, which lapse is critically damaging to me as the Court takes up the case with the distortions in the public domain with no response from me.<\/p>\n<p>The contempt case involves Baldaeus Theological College. When my wife as principal instituted processes for accountability, there was a reaction from \u201cChristian\u201d clergymen who do not take kindly to orders from a woman. They are quite open about saying that a woman as Principal is un-Christian and cite theological concerns even as they fail to account for large sums of money. The relevant clergy tried to sack my wife and Dr. Sam Thevabalasingham, the President of the College and I<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>had<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>stay orders issued from the Commercial High Court.<\/p>\n<p>The contempt allegation is that Dr. Thevabalasingham and I misrepresented those stay orders.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Mirror news article is faulty and refers to\u00a0 giving effect to a meeting. A Senior lawyer\u00a0 like N.R.\u00a0Sivendran\u00a0who is cited as source should know that the reference was to giving effect to decisions<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>at a meeting and not to a meeting itself. He also garbles the story by referring to his own client Selvaraja Jeyaraj of LEADS as the person in contempt of court for misquoting the court decision. What an Advocate for Jeyaraj!<\/p>\n<p>Moreover the clergymen\u2019s Senior Counsel\u00a0Sivendran\u00a0is wrong in\u00a0 saying that I am the Managing Director and Chief Editor of a newsletter\u00a0called Direction which published the news of the stay order. I am not and have nothing to do with Direction except as an avid reader and very occasional contributor. Besides, Direction is a magazine and not a newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>I trust that Mr.\u00a0Sivendran&#8217;s\u00a0court submissions are more accurate than what he has reportedly fed to the Daily Mirror. I am advised that when a senior lawyer spends time reporting distortions to newspapers, it is going beyond his duty as Counsel and harbors malice.<\/p>\n<p>The College which is meant to be a Christian witness and a beacon of hope to the world is becoming exactly what it is not meant to be. As dark forces help those who mismanaged finances to cover up,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>a person well known for selling babies to Europeans for adoption in the late 1970s at Rs. 10,000 each has also got into the act. This diminishes the witness role of the college even more.<\/p>\n<p>As for the more serious issues, court is the right place to say more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":206634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,46,1,8,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-constitutional-reforms","category-news","category-editorial","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Contempt Motion Against Me And Three Others - 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\/contempt-motion-against-me-and-three-others\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Contempt Motion Against Me And Three Others - Colombo Telegraph\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/contempt-motion-against-me-and-three-others\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Colombo Telegraph\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-07-23T07:25:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-07-31T19:28:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Prof.-Ratnajeevan-Hoole.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"900\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"743\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"S. 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