{"id":87668,"date":"2013-05-20T12:08:57","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T06:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=87668"},"modified":"2013-05-20T12:08:57","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T06:38:57","slug":"1474-jaffna-tamils-writ-case-against-land-grab-by-rajapaksa-regime-to-be-supported-on-next-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/1474-jaffna-tamils-writ-case-against-land-grab-by-rajapaksa-regime-to-be-supported-on-next-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"1474 Jaffna Tamils&#8217; Writ Case Against Land Grab By Rajapaksa Regime To Be Supported On Next Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CA (Writ) 125\/2013, the case filed by 1474 desperate landowners of the Jaffna Province against steps by the Rajapaksa regime to take over their traditional lands in the Jaffna Peninsula came up today (20.05.2013) in the Appeal Court before Justice S. Sriskandaraja, President of the Court of Appeal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/land-grabs-in-north-and-east-contradict-llrc-recommendations\/land-occupy_army-board_ci\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-84985\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-84985\" title=\"land occupy_army board_CI\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/land-occupy_army-board_CI-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/land-occupy_army-board_CI-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/land-occupy_army-board_CI.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>When the case was taken up, court was informed by K. Kanag-Isvaran, PC appearing with M. A. Sumanthiran, Viran Corea, Bhavani Fonseka, Lakshmanan Jeyakumar and Niran Anketell that it had been brought to the petitioners&#8217; attention after the case was filed, that a so-called order for urgent acquisition purportedly under section 38 proviso A of the Land Acquisition Act had also been published in a Government Gazette, which also the petitioners wish to challenge and have quashed by court. A motion had been filed on behalf of the petitioners, presenting the Gazette publication to court.<\/p>\n<p>Kanag-Isvaran told court that he was in a position to demonstrate that both the purported notice under section 2 of the Land Acquisition Act and the purported order under section 38 proviso A of that Act by the Minister of Land, were bad and liable to be quashed by court in the light of well-established principles of administrative law.<\/p>\n<p>Court permitted the petitioners&#8217; application to amend the petition to add a prayer to also seek the quashing of the so-called publication\/order under section 38 proviso A of the Land Acquisition Act, and directed that the case is to be taken up for support on 27.05.2013 (next Monday) after the amended petition is filed, with notice to the respondents.<\/p>\n<p>Details of the case and the full petition obtained by the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/\">Colombo Telegraph<\/a><\/span> were published in an <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/1474-northern-tamils-petition-appeal-court-to-help-prevent-grab-of-their-homes-by-rajapaksa-regime\/\">earlier news report<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The Colombo Telegraph is reliably informed that thousands more are due to resort to litigation in a bid to save their lands from being taken from them by the ruling regime.<\/p>\n<p>Related posts;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"1474 Northern Tamils Petition Appeal Court To Help Prevent Grab Of Their Homes By Rajapaksa Regime\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/1474-northern-tamils-petition-appeal-court-to-help-prevent-grab-of-their-homes-by-rajapaksa-regime\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">1474 Northern Tamils Petition Appeal Court To Help Prevent Grab Of Their Homes By Rajapaksa Regime<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":84985,"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-87668","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 - 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