Gnanasara Thera further remanded
Posted by Editor on February 16, 2016 - 4:32 pm
Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) General Secretary Ven. Galagodaaththe Gnanasara Thera was further remanded by Homagama Magistrate Ranga Dassanayake till February 23 for allegedly threatening Pradeep Eknaligoda’s wife Sandhaya Eknaligoda.
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If one were to follow historical development then a few months in jail is preferable to be run down by a bus, fall off a precipice or get caught to a stray bullet or succumb to a surgeons scalpel. Further Nelson spent about a third of his life in prison while his members of ANC fought apartheid oppression.
The circumstances that led to Ven Gnanasara be charged can be considered trivial in that once one enter court any physical movement within is considered contempt at the disretion of the judge or the magistrate and can never be challenged for the judge or the magistrate is never wrong.