(Lanka-e-News -22.Nov.2012, 11.55PM) The Supreme Court (SC) today announced that there are legal tangles in the impeachment motion , and therefore the Parliamentary select committee be instructed to put on hold the inquiry into the impeachment until the clarification is made. The SC also stated that the clarification will be made known on the 13th of next month. The SC which did not issue an interim injunction order , added that until the 13th the Committee of inquiry shall be halted. This directive was given based on an examination of a request made by the appeal court for a clarification from the SC in regard to the petition filed in the appeal court.
It is to be noted that the SC in this instance did not give any orders against the Parliament but confined to prescribing what is to be done. This was issued by a panel of three judges with justice Nimal Amaratunge presiding. The other two SC judges were Sri Pavan and Priyasad Dep. The CJ did not include herself in this panel.
Meanwhile , in his characteristic boorish and brutish manner , Basil Rajapakse had given instructions this evening to the select Committee to go ahead regardless of what were prescribed, according to reports reaching Lanka e news , meaning that the Rajapakse regime had already decided to override the judiciary.
The Presidential advisor Kumarasiri Hettige on the other hand is moving heaven and earth to avoid these reports being published by the media, and is busy distorting and misrepresenting them . He is instructing the media to avoid reporting on the ground it is impeachment news. However this is a misleading instruction because media is to be kept out from the impeachment news only when the Select Committee of the Parliament inquires , and not when it is a court proceeding.
