Supreme Court rejects Gota’s petition
Posted by Editor on September 11, 2019 - 2:36 pm
The Supreme Court today by majority decision rejected the petition filed by former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa claiming that the charges filed against him over the D.A. Rajapaksa museum case are incorrect.
The case was filed against Mr. Rajapaksa and six others over the alleged misappropriation of Rs. 33.9 million by building a D. A. Rajapaksa museum.
The case is due to be heard from the 15th of October at the Permanent High Court.
Gotabaya Rajapaksa moved the motion claiming that the charge sheet filed at the Permanent High Court were erroneous.
The appeal was dismissed on a majority decision by a bench that comprised of Justices Sisira De Abrew, Priyantha Jayawardana, Prasanna Jayawardana, Vijith Malalgoda and LTB Dehideniya.
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National Hero, Mahinda Rajapaksa, made two poor and unsustainable decisions in his political career.
The first decision was to call early Presidential election in 2014 based on soothsayer advice which he eventually lost.
The second decision was to nominate his brother, GR, as the presidential candidate in 2019.
Mahinda Rajapaksa will live to regret these two decisions which has and will prove to be disastrous.
Mahinda Rajapaksa shoud learn that Ranil Wickremesinghe is by far, more intellingent and excellently strategic in his poltical moves.
For instance, when RW was promoting the candidature of GR, by not objecting to the unconfirmed renounciation of US Citizenship and by making sure GR gets a false SL Passport, RW was plotting to deal with Rakapaksa Family intention to regain power.
The Supreme Court decision is quite right