Diyawadana Nilame of the Dalada Maligawa awarded legal costs by Kandy High Court

• The Kandy High Court had dismissed the four cases filed against the Diyawadana Nilame

In line with the judgement delivered by Supreme Court, The Diyawadana Nilame of the Dalada Maligawa Pradeep Nilanga Dela Bandara has been awarded a sum of Rs.100,000 as legal costs before Kandy High Court, in respect of four cases filed against him by former Embekke Devale Basnayake Nilame Rasika Sudantha Punchi Bandara Senanayake. 

Rasika Sudantha Punchibandara Senanayake had instituted proceedings under section 136(1) (A) in Magistrate’s Court of Kandy, against Diyawadana Nilame of Dalada Maligawa Pradeep Nilanga Dela Bandara for committing an offence under section 36(3) of The Buddhist Temporalities Ordinance, failure to tender half yearly accounts of the Temple of  the Tooth Relic which amounts to a violation of Section 36(1) (2)of the Act.  Pradeep Nilanga Dela Bandara had filed a revision application in the  Kandy High Court challenging the legality of the cases filed in the Magistrate Court of Kandy.  

The Kandy High Court had dismissed the four cases with costs filed against the Diyawadana Nilame. Accordingly, Rasika Sudantha Punchi Bandara Senanayake was ordered to pay a cost of Rs. 125,000 each in respect of the applications. Senanayake had subsequently filed an appeal in the Supreme Court.