{"id":77681,"date":"2013-03-18T07:57:12","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T07:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=77681"},"modified":"2013-03-26T09:38:10","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T09:38:10","slug":"chief-justice-shirani-says-no-comment-to-both-media-and-the-bribery-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/chief-justice-shirani-says-no-comment-to-both-media-and-the-bribery-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"Chief Justice Shirani Says \u2018No Comment\u2019 To Both Media And The Bribery Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/\">Colombo Telegraph<\/a><\/span> &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chief Justice Dr. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Shirani+Bandaranayake&amp;x=5&amp;y=2\">Shirani Bandaranayake<\/a><\/span> who appeared before the Bribery Commission this morning objected to certain members of the Commission on grounds of bias and will submit\u00a0 preliminary objections in writing before the Commission on April 1.<\/p>\n<p>The legal team of the \u00a0Chief Justice Bandaranayake informed investigating officers, that the nature and scope of the inquiry was not informed to the ousted Chief Justice, and therefore she was in no position to give a statement to the officials.<\/p>\n<p>When media questioned she\u00a0simply said \u2018no comment\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Related posts;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a title=\"CJ Shirani Has Been Summoned To Appear Before Bribery Commission\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/cj-shirani-has-been-summoned-to-appear-before-bribery-commission\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">CJ Shirani Has Been Summoned To Appear Before Bribery Commission<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/chief-justice-shirani-says-no-comment-to-both-media-and-the-bribery-commission\/shirani-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-77682\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-77682\" title=\"Shirani\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Shirani.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Shirani.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Shirani-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":77682,"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-77681","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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