{"id":96046,"date":"2013-07-19T01:56:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T20:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=96046"},"modified":"2013-07-29T21:43:52","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T16:13:52","slug":"gosl-is-in-the-process-of-instituting-criminal-prosecution-against-cj-shirani-lawyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/gosl-is-in-the-process-of-instituting-criminal-prosecution-against-cj-shirani-lawyers\/","title":{"rendered":"GoSL Is In The Process Of Instituting Criminal Prosecution Against CJ Shirani &#8211;  Lawyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It is reliably learnt that the government is in the process of instituting criminal prosecution against the CJ, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Shirani+Bandaranayake&amp;x=8&amp;y=2\">Shirani Bandaranayake<\/a><\/span> shortly.\u00a0\u00a0The recommencement of the hate campaign against her in the state media is an indication of this intended action. The state media is known to be operating in close collaboration with all law enforcement agencies in the country.\u00a0 We have witnessed such behaviour of the state media in similar cases where the government is involved in a witch-hunt against individuals and organisations&#8221;\u00a0says the\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Lawyers+Collective&amp;x=12&amp;y=5\">Lawyers Collective<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_68218\" style=\"width: 152px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/impeachment-of-the-first-woman-cj-and-beginning-of-the-spring-in-sri-lanka\/shirani-b-1-colombo-telegraph\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-68218\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68218\" class=\"size-full wp-image-68218\" title=\"Shirani B 1 Colombo Telegraph\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Shirani-B-1-Colombo-Telegraph.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"142\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-68218\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CJ Shirani Bandaranayake<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Lawyers\u2019 Collective reiterates that due to governmental interference, law enforcement has lost its operational independence.\u00a0 The manner in which the proceedings of the Parliamentary Select Committee were manipulated demonstrated the extent to which the government has gone to persecute the head of the judiciary. Initiation of a prosecution of CJ Shirani Bandaranayaka is one of the techniques the government will resort to, in order to justify the impeachment, before the Commonwealth Summit scheduled in November 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers Collective urges the Government to desist from persecuting CJ, Shirani Bandaranayake any further, as it is a continuation of the attack on the administration of justice.\u00a0 Lawyers Collective considers the intended prosecution as a malicious witch-hunt.\u00a0 It is a prolongation of the unprecedented ugly impeachment process never heard of in a democracy before. Though the Government and its agencies are working tirelessly at present to show the world that the impeachment was lawful, the lawyers\u00a0 want the public not to be misled by any further \u201cpost-impeachment moves\u201d\u00a0 by the Government,\u00a0 through its various branches, to justify the impeachment. There was no doubt that at the time of the impeachment, the highest courts of the country had determined that the PSC proceedings were unconstitutional and the Executive and Parliament ignored such determinations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":68218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2187,1,6969,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-most-popular","category-news","category-popular-stories","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>GoSL Is In The Process Of Instituting Criminal Prosecution Against CJ Shirani - Lawyers  - 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