Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Jan 13,2013 Sunday sacked the country’s first woman Chief Justice Shirani Bandarnayake after ratifying her impeachment by Parliament which held her guilty of corruption, notwithstanding widespread protests by lawyers and others.
On Friday Jan 11,2013, Sri Lankan Parliament voted 155 to 49 to dismiss Bandaranayake, whose recent rulings had gone against the government.
The impeachment of the Chief Justice went ahead despite calls by rights
groups, citizens, clergy and lawyers who asked the government not to do
so.
The Parliamentary committee on December 8, 2012, had ruled that
Bandaranayake was guilty of three of the 14 charges in the impeachment
proceedings against her moved by the ruling UPFA coalition legislators.
The three charges were of financial impropriety based on non-declaration
of assets and conflict of interest in a case involving a failed
investment company.
Bandaranayake denied all the charges against her. On December 6, she
stormed out of the impeachment hearing in Parliament, saying she would
not be given a fair trial.
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