{"id":105857,"date":"2020-08-25T15:44:59","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T22:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=105857"},"modified":"2020-08-25T15:44:59","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T22:44:59","slug":"sc-concludes-contempt-of-court-case-against-ranjan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/08\/25\/sc-concludes-contempt-of-court-case-against-ranjan\/","title":{"rendered":"SC concludes contempt of court case against Ranjan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Supreme Court has concluded the Contempt of Court case filed against Parliamentarian Ranjan Ramanayake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The case was heard before the Supreme Court three-judge bench consisting of Justices Sisira de Abrew, Vijith Malalgoda, and Preethi Padman Surasena today (25).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0db8\u0db1\u0dca\u0dad\u0dca\u200d\u0dbb\u0dd3\u00a0\u0dbb\u0db1\u0dca\u0da2\u0db1\u0dca\u0da7 \u0d91\u0dbb\u0dd9\u0dc4\u0dd2 \u0d85\u0db0\u0dd2\u0d9a\u0dbb\u0dab\u0dba\u0da7 \u0d85\u0db4\u0dc4\u0dcf\u0dc3 \u0d9a\u0dd2\u0dbb\u0dd3\u0db8\u0dda \u0db1\u0da9\u0dd4 \u0dc0\u0dd2\u0db7\u0dcf\u0d9c\u0dba \u0d85\u0dc0\u0dc3\u0db1\u0dca\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d-NwnsAIPWU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The bench has decided to take up further clarification on the case on the 21st of October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The case was filed against State Minister Ranjan Ramanayake over Contempt of Court charges for making defamatory remarks against the judiciary on the 21st of August in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking to the media following a meeting with then-Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe at the Temple Trees, Ramanayake has claimed that the majority of judges in the country are corrupt and that they give biased rulings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Retired Air Force Officer Sunil Perera and Venerable Magalkande Sudatta Thera later filed two petitions with the Supreme Court alleging that such defamatory comments can shatter public confidence and provide a warped image of the judiciary to the people of Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on these complaints, the Attorney General had later served the charges against Ramanayake before the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Supreme Court has concluded the Contempt of Court case filed against Parliamentarian Ranjan Ramanayake. The case was heard before the Supreme Court three-judge bench consisting of Justices Sisira de Abrew, Vijith Malalgoda, and Preethi Padman Surasena today (25). The bench has decided to take up further clarification on the case on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}