{"id":71786,"date":"2013-01-31T17:10:40","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T17:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=71786"},"modified":"2013-02-06T00:04:31","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T00:04:31","slug":"update-the-case-against-mohan-pieris-misconduct-pieris-himself-chaired-the-bench","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/update-the-case-against-mohan-pieris-misconduct-pieris-himself-chaired-the-bench\/","title":{"rendered":"Update &#8211; The Case Against Mohan Pieris Misconduct: Pieris Himself Chaired The Bench"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Mudliyar&amp;x=11&amp;y=5\">Mudliyar<\/a><\/span> &#8211;<em><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According the official record released by the Supreme Court yesterday (See the copy below),\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/mohan-pieriss-gross-misconduct-and-dishonesty-exposed-before-the-sc\/\">the case<\/a><\/span>\u00a0( which challenges Mohan Pieris\u2019s conduct\u00a0was due to come up before a bench headed by Justice\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Shiranee+Tilakawardane&amp;x=10&amp;y=4\">Shiranee Thilakawardane<\/a><\/span>. However, it has been altered at the last minute, permitting Mohan Peiris himself to chair the bench as the Chief Justice, to hear the case, where he himself was accused in a major revenue fraud.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_71793\" style=\"width: 277px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/update-the-case-against-mohan-pieris-misconduct-pieris-himself-chaired-the-bench\/mohan-pieris-8\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-71793\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-71793\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-71793\" title=\"Mohan Pieris\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Mohan-Pieris4-267x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"267\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Mohan-Pieris4-267x300.jpg 267w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Mohan-Pieris4.jpg 611w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-71793\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mohan Pieris<\/p><\/div>\n<p>However, when it was brought to the notice of the Court that this is a matter challenging his conduct as the AG, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Mohan+Pieris&amp;x=9&amp;y=6\">Mohan Pieris<\/a><\/span> immediately withdrew from the hearing and the matter was re-fixed for support by the other two judges and the case is now due to come up tomorrow again. As per the case record, including today\u2019s postponement, it is learned that this case has been postponed for 19 times, since filing of this case on 24th September 2010.<\/p>\n<p>After the postponement of the matter and on the way to the Court car park, it is reported that some media men and Counsel\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Nagananda+Kodituwakku&amp;x=14&amp;y=7\">Nagananda Kodituwakku<\/a><\/span>&#8216;s\u00a0team had observed three people in a red colored Toyota car acting in a suspicious manner. They have tried to obtain some images of those people but before that those people have vanished from the Court premises. However the team has managed to obtain the registration mark of the car and to obtain registered keeper details from the RMV. According to the counsel, he had alerted the police about this incident with the details of the car given, urging the police to inquire to the matter immediately and provide a feedback. Our inquires on the matter reveal that up to the time of writing there is no response from the police yet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/update-the-case-against-mohan-pieris-misconduct-pieris-himself-chaired-the-bench\/schedule_of_cases_for_31-01-2013\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-71788\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-71788\" title=\"Schedule_of_cases_for_31-01-2013\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Schedule_of_cases_for_31-01-2013.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"643\" height=\"885\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Schedule_of_cases_for_31-01-2013.jpg 2550w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Schedule_of_cases_for_31-01-2013-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Schedule_of_cases_for_31-01-2013-743x1024.jpg 743w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Schedule_of_cases_for_31-01-2013-800x1101.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 643px) 100vw, 643px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related posts;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Mohan Pieris\u2019s Gross Misconduct And Dishonesty Exposed Before The SC\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/mohan-pieriss-gross-misconduct-and-dishonesty-exposed-before-the-sc\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Mohan Pieris\u2019s Gross Misconduct And Dishonesty Exposed Before The SC<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a title=\"Aspirant CJ Mohan Pieris Exposed: Professional Misconduct As Attorney General\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/aspirant-cj-mohan-pieris-exposed-professional-misconduct-as-attorney-general\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Aspirant CJ Mohan Pieris Exposed: Professional Misconduct As Attorney General<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a title=\"Rs 619 Million Public Funds Fraud Case Against Mohan Peiris And PB Jayasundara: The Lawyer Was Threatened\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/rs-619-million-public-funds-fraud-case-against-mohan-peiris-and-pb-jayasundara-the-lawyer-was-threatened\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rs 619 Million Public Funds Fraud Case Against Mohan Peiris And PB Jayasundara: The Lawyer Was Threatened<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":71793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2187,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-most-popular","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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