(Lanka-e-News -22.Sep.2016, 9.30PM) In the child molestation case filed against 12 suspects including Sudharman Radeliyagoda alias Yakada Sudha and Anusha Pelpitiya , the Colombo additional magistrate Ms. Aruni Attygalle decided to release the suspects day before yesterday ( 20) on the advice of the Attorney General (AG) .
This case was a sequel to a TV program which slung mud at president Maithripala Sirisena during the last presidential elections when he was the common presidential candidate. It was alleged via that program, a woman had been abducted and held captive by him . This program was telecast using an under-aged son of the woman to make false allegations against Maithripala Sirisena then .Consequently , child molestation charges were filed against the suspects .
Unfortunately ,the withdrawal of this case at the request of the AG has created a deep sense of disgust and distrust in respect of the judicial sphere among the civil society which is expecting a change for the better specially after the 8 th of January 2015. It cannot be gainsaid , the charges filed against the 12 suspects including ITN ex News Director Sudharman Radeliyagoda and ex Director General Telecom regulatory Commission are most grave.
It was the Children and Women’s bureau that made the submissions to court based on charges of molestation and cruelty committed against an under aged child with intent to unlawfully and secretly detain him.
The father of the alleged victim ,between 30 th and 31 st of December 2014 , made the revelation via the ITN and Rupavahini telecasts . Using these video tapes and involving the child without latter’s knowledge , the character of present president Mathripala Sirisena was defamed, and his private life and political career were dented and damaged , the Children and women’s Bureau stated in its report to court , while charging there was child molestation .
The video recording was done after the child was illegally detained by Pelpita in a house behind the BMICH taken on rent by the Telecom Regulatory Commission. The main culprits who planned and plotted this vicious mudslinging campaign against Mathripala Sirisena the then common candidate during the presidential campaign were : Sudharman Radeliyagoda alias Yakada Sudha, a coordinating lawyer of Mahinda Rajapakse by the name of Sepala Ratnayake, and Anusha Pelpita. The father of the child had kowtowed to their requests .
It is a pertinent question , how can the AG withdraw such a case loaded with most grave charges and under whose pressure ? Based on reports reaching Lanka e news , the senior lawyers at the AG’s department who proffered counsel in this case themselves are in the dark over this withdrawal by the AG . They are totally unaware of AG’s action. Unbelievably , even president Maithripala Sirisena who is now in New York had become aware of this only when he was asked about it following media reports.
It is the view of legal luminaries that if there was a settlement reached between the two parties to the case , that could only be done during the case proceedings in court , and not by the AG withdrawing the case . The legal fraternity therefore bemoan that such illegal actions and methodologies can be a most pernicious precedent serving the sordid aims and objectives of scoundrels and rascals in the future elections .
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What is the SL Lawyers Federation or such bodies doing about it, and without delay.
-- by punchinilame on 2016-09-23
That's called the freedom of the judiciary!!
-- by NAK on 2016-09-23
