{"id":131512,"date":"2023-01-19T17:51:11","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T00:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=131512"},"modified":"2023-01-19T17:51:11","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T00:51:11","slug":"wijeyadasa-to-inform-jsc-to-launch-probe-over-a-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/01\/19\/wijeyadasa-to-inform-jsc-to-launch-probe-over-a-judge\/","title":{"rendered":"Wijeyadasa to inform JSC to launch probe over a judge"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Minister of Justice Wijeyadasa Rajapaksa has requested the Judicial Service Commission to investigate the action of Colombo Additional Magistrate Tharanga Mahawatte who had offered food to a suspect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was mentioned by the Minister in response to MP Premanath Dollawatte and others who wanted action against the magistrate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wijeyadasa to inform JSC to launch probe over a judge\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yKs6tBLAqUY?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> It is the Judicial Service Commission which has the power to take disciplinary action against a judge. I am therefore prepared to request a probe against the magistrate if the MPs send me the complaints against her in writing,\u201d the Minister said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MP Premanath Dollawatte who referred to the Daily Mirror story that appeared on Thursday titled Lawyers urge Attorney General not to interfere with the Judiciary&#8221; said the judicial officer concerned had acted in an unacceptable manner, This is a bad precedent as other judicial officers may also follow this example . One wonders as to what action should be taken against this magistrate?  he questioned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MP Samanpriya Herath said the magistrate concerned has made a statement saying the Aragalaya has been launched for the betterment of everyone and some action should be taken against her. (Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardana)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror Minister of Justice Wijeyadasa Rajapaksa has requested the Judicial Service Commission to investigate the action of Colombo Additional Magistrate Tharanga Mahawatte who had offered food to a suspect. This was mentioned by the Minister in response to MP Premanath Dollawatte and others who wanted action against the magistrate. It is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-judiciary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131512","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=131512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}