FR petitions challenging decision to pardon Gnanasara thera fixed for support

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Two Fundamental Rights petitions filed challenging former President Maithripala Sirisena’s decision to grant pardon to Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) General Secretary Ven. Galagoda Atte Gnanasara Thera were yesterday fixed for support by the Supreme Court.

These petitions had been filed by Centre for Policy Alternative (CPA) and Sandhya Ekneligoda, the wife of missing journalist Prageeth Ekneligoda.

The Supreme Court granted permission to the petitioners to file amended captions in respect of the petitions. Supreme Court three-judge-bench comprising Justice Priyantha Jayawardena, justice A.H.M.D. Nawaz and Justice Kumuduni Wickremasinghe fixed the two petitions for support on September 19.

On May 23, 2019 Gnanasara Thera was released from Welikada prison after receiving a letter from the Presidential Secretariat granting pardon to Ven.Gnanasara Thera. (Lakmal Sooriyagoda)

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Results known Wednesday, 18 May 2022 02:14 PM

He is the architect for the crisis we are faced with today. God will punish him.

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Borat Wednesday, 18 May 2022 02:18 PM

Please put this rabid dog in with its master

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BuffaloaCitizen Wednesday, 18 May 2022 02:30 PM

The best place for this monkey is inside jail. It is a pity we could not dip this fellow inside Beira lake.

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Hawk eye Wednesday, 18 May 2022 02:31 PM

When is justice going to be meted out to this thugs who is hiding behind yellow robes? There are too many spirits of dead people crying out for justice that has been denied for a long time by the Rajapakse’s. May these southern thugs rot in hell, for these extra judicial cold blooded killings and, robbing the innocent ‘man’s daily bread’ for their personnel greed. Talk about practicing virtues of Buddhist Teaching? Wolves in sheep cloth.

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Tissa Fernando Wednesday, 18 May 2022 02:44 PM

So the wahabists are going to finish every one this time once and for all.

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Buddhi Wednesday, 18 May 2022 02:50 PM

These petitions are not the ones the country needs at the need of the hour further dividing the communities on religious

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