{"id":73441,"date":"2018-01-05T19:59:22","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T01:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=73441"},"modified":"2018-01-05T06:31:57","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T13:31:57","slug":"ravi-would-be-in-jail-now-if-bond-commission-had-judicial-powers-dew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/01\/05\/ravi-would-be-in-jail-now-if-bond-commission-had-judicial-powers-dew\/","title":{"rendered":"Ravi would be in jail now if Bond Commission had judicial powers \u2013 DEW"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By\u00a0Yusuf Ariff\u00a0Courtesy adaderana<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
General Secretary of the Sri Lanka Communist Party D.E.W. Gunasekara says that the appointing of a Commission of Inquiry by the President to probe the bond scam has proven to be a correct decision although some had condemned it back then.<\/div>\n
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In that way we have to be grateful to the President for appointing the commission,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He stated that the judge panel toiled for 10 months continuously and not only did they hear the case they also investigated, but they did not have judicial powers.<\/p>\n

We asked for a commission which had judicial powers. The commission should have powers to met out punishment. Like the Thalgodapitiya Commission. But the President appointed a different commission,\u201d he told reporters in Colombo.<\/p>\n

If this commission had been given true judicial power under the Constitution, then today Ravi Karunanayake and the others would already be sentenced to jail.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, he said that they are satisfied that such a commission was appointed in the country for the first time in 59 years, the last time being in 1959. On that side it is important.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since the late S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike took a decision to appoint a commission and sack three ministers from his Cabinet, the party and politics, no other head of state or leader of government had taken such a decision until now,\u201d the former minister said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0Yusuf Ariff\u00a0Courtesy adaderana General Secretary of the Sri Lanka Communist Party D.E.W. Gunasekara says that the appointing of a Commission of Inquiry by the President to probe the bond scam has proven to be a correct decision although some had condemned it back then. In that way we have to be grateful to the President […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-106"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73441","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=73441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}