{"id":4811,"date":"2018-12-15T17:39:12","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T17:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=4811"},"modified":"2018-12-15T17:39:12","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T17:39:12","slug":"three-senior-sri-lankan-academics-file-petition-in-supreme-court-seeking-legal-action-against-ex-chief-justice-sarath-silva-for-allegedly-making-critical-statements-about-judiciary-amounting-to-conte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/three-senior-sri-lankan-academics-file-petition-in-supreme-court-seeking-legal-action-against-ex-chief-justice-sarath-silva-for-allegedly-making-critical-statements-about-judiciary-amounting-to-conte\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Senior Sri Lankan Academics file petition in Supreme Court seeking legal action against ex- Chief Justice Sarath Silva for allegedly making critical statements about judiciary amounting to contempt of court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A petition has been filed before the Supreme Court yesterday against the former Chief Justice Sarath N. Silva over Contempt of Court.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Senior Prof. Chandraguptha Thenuwara, Prof. Hewa Waduge Cyril, and Senior Prof. Prashantha Gunawardena filed the petition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The petitioners have stated that recent remarks made by the former Chief Justice during a meeting organised by the \u2018Jathika Ekamuthuwa\u2019 organisation in Maradana on 12 March is in Contempt of Court and should be held as such.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">They have further mentioned that the former Chief Justice had made another statement of this sort on 18 October.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The petitioners have sought the Supreme Court to launch an investigation in this regard and hold former Chief Justice Sarath N. Silva responsible under the law accordingly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Daily FT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A petition has been filed before the Supreme Court yesterday against the former Chief&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}