( October 7,
2012, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) The attack on the Judicial Services
Commission (JSC) Secretary Manjula Thilekaratne by four persons this morning
had been carried out with the intervention of a higher political office,
government sources said.
The JSC
Secretary who was injured in the attack is being treated at the Colombo
National Hospital. The persons who had attacked Thilekaratne had even taken his
mobile phone. The State Intelligence Service (SIS) in the last few weeks has
been closely monitoring the persons whom Thilekaratne had been associating.
The persons who
assassinated The Sunday Leader Founding Editor Lasantha Wickrematunge had also
taken away his mobile phone in this manner. A special discussion under the
patronage of the President was held on the 4th to discuss the challenge posed
by the Chief Justice and the JSC to the executive and the legislature.
A group of
lawyers and political activists affiliated to the government had participated
in the discussion. Most of them had said the matter needed to be resolved in a
manner that would not be black mark on the government.
However,
Attorney Kalinga Indratissa, who is hopeful of being appointed as a President’s
Counsel, had said that stern action needed to be taken against the Chief
Justice and the JSC Secretary. Indratissa had said that the Chief Justice and
the JSC Secretary are being assisted by lawyers J.C. Weliamune and Saliya
Peiris.
It had been
discussed that complaints received against the Chief Justice and the JSC
Secretary be given publicity through the media. Although the President had
agreed with Indratissa, there had not been any discussion about physical
attacks.
Unconfiremd
reports stated that the attack on the JSC Secretary today had been carried out
by a deputy minister form the Kalutara District, who is hopeful of being
appointed as a Cabinet minister, and an additional district judge who has been
suspended from the service by the secretary.
The President
has commenced a massive media campaign against the JSC Secretary and had openly
said at a discussion in Temple Trees recently that the Secretary’s misdoings
would be exposed in parliament shortly.
A news report
has been published in the www.srilankaleaks.com website stating that the JSC
Secretary had given relief to a criminal. The said website was launched mainly
to carry out the campaign against the Chief Justice and the JSC Secretary.
The person who
gave us the information said that although the President would want to
intimidate the JSC Secretary into resigning from the post, he would not want to
cause any physical harm to him and create a mess like the one faced by the
government following Lasantha Wickrematunge’s assassination.
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