A two-member panel of judges has rejected the petition filed by former Member of Parliament and Journalist J. Sri Ranga, in the Court of Appeal requesting that his case be heard before another judge of the Vavuniya High Court.
Sri Ranga had filed this petition to the Court of Appeal noting that the Chief Judge of the case currently being heard in the Vavuniya High Court against five defendants including himself is being prejudiced.
As the petitioner could not provide any evidence that the Vavuniya High Court judge acted in a partisan manner, the Court of Appeal bench has dismissed the appeal.
The petitioner, who claimed that he has been imprisoned for a long time because of the order of the Vavuniya High Court Judge, had requested that the order be removed.
The case is against Sri Ranga and several others including Police officers over a fatal accident that took place in Vavuniya in 2011.
According to Police, an unregistered vehicle driven by former MP Jaya Sri Ranga had met with an accident near the Settikulam hospital in Vavuniya on July 30, 2011.
The vehicle had crashed on a tree on the side of the road killing the Police sergeant who was the MP’s bodyguard.
After the accident, the former MP had given a statement saying that the vehicle was driven by the Police sergeant. However, investigations later revealed that the vehicle was driven by the MP.
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