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Jailed for repeated contempt of Court

by Wasantha Ramanayake

The Supreme Court yesterday jailed a litigant for one year for repeated contempt of Court.

The litigant Anthony Michael Emmanuel Fernando of Dehiwala, the General Secretary and the Chief organizer of a trade union namely the Private Lakjana Sevaka Human Rights Protection Organization, was found guilty.

The Bench comprised Chief Justice Sarath N. Silva PC, P. Edussuriya and H. S. Yapa.

He filed the instant application before the Supreme Court stating that he was not properly heard in two of his previous fundamental rights applications filed before the Supreme Court.

The Petitioner cited the Attorney General, Secretary to the Judicial Services Commission (JSC), its Chairman, Registrar of the Supreme Court, Chief Justice Sarath Silva, and Justices Asoka de Silva and T. B. Weerasuriya as respondents.

Chief Justice Sarath Silva PC made it clear that the Fundamental Rights applications could not be filed against the orders of the Labour Commissioner who had judicial powers but the petitioner should have gone before the proper forums i.e. the Court of Appeal. However, despite the repeated warning by the court, the petitioner, appearing in person, kept on complaining that he was not given a fair hearing.

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