(Lanka-e-News- 20.July.2015, 3.30PM) Here is a report emerging from the police department of Sri Lanka (SL) pertaining to an unjust extension of service of a DIG five months after he retired which deserves an ignominious place in the Guiness book of records.
It is an established practice that if a government servant is to be given an extension in his service , that is done only before he goes on retirement and before his date of retirement, and not five months after he had gone on retirement . This Guinness record is to be created by none other than minister John Amaratunge in charge of the police service.
It is understandable if this DIG is someone indispensable or he is a ‘superman ‘ cop . But this is a DIG who on the other hand is a most notorious sex starved pervert against whom there are many complaints made by women police officers to the IGP. Therefore the attempt to extend his service ignoring established practices , procedures as well as complaints already lodged with the IGP, is being frowned upon by one and all except by the old crock engineering this move.
This sex starved DIG is none other than Indu Karunaratne who carried out all the illegal and underhand tasks for and on behalf of senior DIG Anura Senanayake , who has himself built a most unsavory reputation within the police department and among the public as who would readily stoop to commit the worst unscrupulous wrongs if those will only serve his selfish self gain, self propulsion and self advancement even at the expense of precious national interests ,and in dereliction of his onerous official duties towards the public.
One old crock trying to promote another is understandable but not in every cirumstance as in this : while the IGP had rejected the request made to extend the service of Indu Karunaratne , minister John has presented a paper to the Cabinet to extend Indu’s service 5 months after the latter’s retirement . The worst part ? the Cabinet had approved it as though to ensure this must enter the Guiness book of ignominious records. Indu went on retirement on 17 th February 2015.
While there exists a Supreme court (SC) verdict that officers who ought to go on retirement should not be kept back in service and is unlawful , during the last regime which was a byword for lawlessness, ignoring this SC verdict, extensions were given.
Now , it seems , this government too is committing the same wrong as did the previous regime. The injustice that follows because of these extensions is , the officers below are deprived of their promotions , and have to go on retirement without their due promotions . Moreover , the pension payment is prepared according to the salary drawn by the retiring officer based on his last rank prior to retirement . Hence these officers below who are stranded because of service extensions to those above ,are subjected to an injustice lasting a whole life time ,let alone suffer until death.
Recently , because of such unjust extension of service , a DIG S.A.D.N. Gunawardena had to file a fundamental rights petition in the SC . This case No. is 288/2015. The petitioner secured all his promotions after he sought SC redress which clearly illustrated the grave injustice meted out to the officers below owing to extension of service to those who should go on pension. This gross injustice became known to the whole world only after the petitioner had recourse to judicial intervention.
There are two more DIGs already who are stranded because they have not sought supreme court redress. They are DIGs, Poojitha Jayasundara and Latheef. When such is the unfair situation prevailing , seeking to giving extension to DIG Indu Karunaratne five mionths after he has gone on retirement is an egregious injustice going to be committed within the police department.
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If I remember right Rajaguru or some retired officer was made the IG by CBK long years back
-- by Ram on 2015-07-21
