Court orders reinstatement

11 February 2011 02:15 pm

On the suggestion made by the Supreme Court, the Attorney General today (11) gave an undertaking that the interdiction on Superintendent of Police Jayantha Rohana Jayawardena would be removed and that the purported disciplinary inquiry would be concluded within three months or on or before May 31.

The Bench comprising Chief Justice Asoka de Silva, Justices P.A.Ratnayake and Chandra Ekanayake terminated the contempt matter leveled against the Inspector General of Police Mahinda Balasuriya and listed the fundamental rights petition to be mentioned on June 1.

The Supreme Court had, on January 28, directed the Registrar of the Court to issue notice on the Inspector General of Police Mahinda Balasuriya to be present in Court today.

This order had been made by the Court, pursuant to the action filed by aggrieved Superintendent of Police J.R.Jayawardena against the IGP for the alleged contempt of court.

SP Jayawardena had complained he had earlier been placed on compulsory leave and later restored in the service on the stay order issued by the Court, is been now interdicted with immediate effect in the nature of severe one than that of earlier one allegedly to the same charges. (S.S.Selvanayagam)





IGP Mahinda Balasuriya who came before the Supreme Court today in a contempt of court case filed by SSP Jayantha Rohana Jayawardena, in conversation outside the Superior courts complex at Hulftsdorp. Pic by Kitsiri De Mel