Update - Next PSC session on Dec 4

23 November 2012 09:58 am

The next session of the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) on the impeachment motion against Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake will be held on December 4.

At today’s session,initially the PSC members had declined to allow lawyers of the Dr. Bandaranayake to enter the session room, but later allowed them in after protests by the CJ herself.

Dr. Bandaranayake has already filed answers to the 14 charges mentioned against her in the impeachment motion.

At the today’s session, the committee requested Dr. Bandaranayake to submit additional submissions before December 4.

She filed answers yesterday and sent them to the parliamentary select committee probing the charges.  The copies of the answers sent by the Chief Justice have been distributed among the members of the select committee yesterday.

The select committee chaired by Environment Minister Anura PriyadarsanaYapa was appointed by Speaker Chamal Rajapaksa after 117 MPs handed over a resolution to him asking for it. In the resolution, there are 14 charges against the chief justice. Other members of the Select Committee are Ministers Nimal Siripala De Silva, Susil Premajayantha, Dilan Perera, Neomal Perera,Rajitha Senratne, Wimal Weerawansa, John Amaratunga, Lakshman Kiriella,R. Sampanthan and Vijitha Herath.