Nine petitions against Deshabandu’s appointment as IGP to be heard on September 08

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Colombo, May 28 (Daily Mirror) - Nine Fundamental Rights petitions challenging the appointment of Deshabandu Tennakoon as Inspector General of Police (IGP) were today fixed for hearing on September 8 by the Supreme Court.

The matters were fixed for September 8 when the petitions were called before the Supreme Court’s three-judge bench, comprising Justices Janak de Silva, Sobhitha Rajakaruna and Sampath Wijeratne.

These petitions are to be heard before a five-judge bench of the Supreme Court on the next hearing.

The Supreme Court has already issued an interim order restraining Deshabandu Tennakoon from exercising the powers, functions and responsibilities of the office of Inspector General of Police.

The Supreme Court further held that the petitioners had made out a strong prima facie case suggesting that the said appointment was contrary to the applicable provisions of the Constitution.

This order will be effective until the final determination of nine Fundamental Rights applications filed challenging his appointment as IGP.

Prof. Savithri Goonasekara, Niroshan Padukka, Dr. Pakiasothy Saravanamuththu, Malcom Cardinal Ranjith, Tharindu Iranga Jayawardana, Hirunika Premachandra, Atham Lebbe Aazath, S.K. Priyanga and A.N.S. Soysa filed these petitions naming the Attorney General representing the President, Chairman of the Constitutional Council, the Speaker, members of the Constitutional Council, the Attorney General and several others as respondents.

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Wrong Doer’s Must Be Banned From Public Office Wednesday, 28 May 2025 03:13 PM

Moving forward, all government officials suspected of wrong doings must not be given responsible positions. With the NPP’s strategy of not bending to corruption and malpractices, these wrong doers will be eventually be punished and banned from running any government office. Hope future parties in the event NPP is replaced by a more competent leadership, the foundations laid by NPP is continued.

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Zarook Thursday, 29 May 2025 12:56 AM

Revenge of the drug dealers. W15 source of funds should be investigated. Biggest crooks are advising National Pacha Pava.

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Alisten Wednesday, 28 May 2025 03:14 PM

What a waste of government resources on one man. The people appointed him also should be punished for breaching the constitution. The court did not charge him for the cost incurred by police for searching. All public money, one side is a crime and other side government resources to find him. Please judges and attorney general should claim money from him. Will they?

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Aquarius Wednesday, 28 May 2025 06:04 PM

These important cases need to be fast tracked to avoid backlogs. In the meantime does he still carry the title of IGP and someone new cannot be appointed? This is how every single case gets dragged on for years. A solution to stop this is a priority for the government and streamline the legal process to hear cases quickly. This can also be strategy for witnesses to and evidence to go away.

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Judiciary Thursday, 29 May 2025 03:26 AM

No wonder the state of the country with this VERY WEAK judiciary that is controlled by the politicians. Four months for such a simple straight forward verdict. Unambiguous, definitive, unequivocal, conclusive, incontrovertible, indisputable, irrefutable verdict takes four months to convict this man. Adding injury to insult this man is still the IGP. ONLY IN SRI LANKA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Senior Citizen Thursday, 29 May 2025 05:38 AM

Those responsible for violating the provisions of the Constitution must be punished to prevent no repetitions. We past a regime of corruption to the core and authoritarian rule by an unelected President who did not care a tuppennce to judicial orders. This man had the gumption to tell the bald headed man who lived the life of RILEY WITH ALL MEMBERS OF HIS FAMILY LIVING ON THE COUNTRY to go and meet the CHIEF JUSTICE AND PULL THE CHESS NUTS OUT OF THE FIRE, He must be punished so that a message will go down that the SC IS SUPREME AND NO TRANSITORY POLITICIANS CAN RIDE ROUGH SHOD ON JUDICIAL ORDERS.

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Justice Thursday, 29 May 2025 05:49 AM

Justices Janak de Silva, Sobhitha Rajakaruna and Sampath Wijeratne should be ashamed to delay this judgement even by a day. This is a simple judgement so delaying it for whose benefit??

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