{"id":46243,"date":"2015-07-28T23:34:19","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T05:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=46243"},"modified":"2015-07-28T05:10:31","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T12:10:31","slug":"nalin-files-fr-case-over-non-release-of-cope-report-on-bond-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/07\/28\/nalin-files-fr-case-over-non-release-of-cope-report-on-bond-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Nalin files FR case over non-release of COPE report on bond scam"},"content":{"rendered":"

Courtesy Island\u00a028th July 2015 <\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Prof. Nalin de Silva has sought the intervention of the Supreme Court to require former Chairman of Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) D. E. W. Gunasekera to file an affidavit in court, along with the Interim COPE report, declaring that it is a true copy of the Interim COPE report on the controversial 30-year bond issue by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL).<\/p>\n

General Secretary of the Communist Party Gunasekera has been named as the second respondent in the case filed last Friday.<\/p>\n

The petitioner has requested the SC to grant him leave to proceed, declare that the petitioner\u2019s fundamental rights guaranteed to him under Article 12(1) of the Constitution and more importantly, Article 14 (A) have been infringed, grant an interim order requiring the former Chairman of COPE the 2nd respondent to file an affidavit in Court, along with the Interim COPE report, declaring that it is a true copy of the Interim COPE report on the 30 year bond issue of the CBSL, grant interim relief declaring that all former members of the consultative Committee COPE on the 30-year bond issue, have a right to continue to speak to media and at public forums without any impediment by law or otherwise on any matter concerning COPE and the said bond issue, as it is their duty to uphold the Right to Information of citizens guaranteed in the Constitution, by doing so;<\/p>\n

grant Interim relief by directing the former Chairman of COPE or the former Speaker of the House of Parliament, or the Secretary General of Parliament, to release the said COPE report, now ascertained by affidavit as true and correct, to the media;<\/p>\n

grant Interim relief by way of declaration that the former Chairman of COPE has, and had, unhindered rights to release in the public domain the COPE Interim Report, and refer to it, as he has already done; declare that the people of this country as the petitioner himself as a citizen, have the right to obtain all information regarding the COPE consultative Committee meeting, and all other credible information from official sources with regard to the bond transaction of the CBSL;<\/p>\n

declare that the fundamental Right to Information that has been guaranteed under the constitution under section 14 (A) has been violated, with the addendum, \u2018considering the suppression of information as a result of the dissolution of Parliament and the subsequent suppression of information by seeking to conceal the draft COPE report on the bond issue.\u2019<\/p>\n

The SC has been moved in terms of Articles 17 & 126 of the Constitution. Respondents are Ranil Wickremesinghe, D.E.W. Gunasekera, Dhammika Dassanayake, Secretary General of Parliament, P. B. Abeykoon, Secretary to the President, Sujeeva Senasinghe, Deputy Minister of Justice, Arjuna Mahendran, Governor Central Bank of Sri Lanka, Perpetual Treasuries Ltd., 10, Alfred House Gardens Colombo 3, Chamal Rajapaksa, former Speaker and the Attorney General The petitioner stated:<\/p>\n

“A sum of Rs. 59 billion or thereabouts has been lost to state coffers as a result of the bond transaction on which the COPE Consultative Committee deliberated. Five weeks after the controversial 30-year Treasury Bond issue, the country has incurred an additional Rs. 5.3 billion as higher interest costs for this year alone and the incremental borrowing cost during the tenure of the different T-Bills and T-Bonds \u2018issued within the last five weeks\u2019 will now cost the country a staggering Rs. 42.5 billion.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Courtesy Island\u00a028th July 2015 Prof. Nalin de Silva has sought the intervention of the Supreme Court to require former Chairman of Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) D. E. W. Gunasekera to file an affidavit in court, along with the Interim COPE report, declaring that it is a true copy of the Interim COPE report on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46243","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=46243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}