Ranjan seeks CA order to save Parliamentary seat

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Feb 2, 2021
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Ranjan Ramanayake has filed a Writ Application with the Court of Appeal on Tuesday (2) seeking an interim order preventing the attempt to make his parliamentary seat vacant.

The Attorney General and the Secretary-General of Parliament were named as respondents in the application.

Mr Ramanayake was sentenced last month by a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court comprising Justices Sisira de Abrew, Vijith Malalgoda, and Preethi Padman Surasena.

After undergoing a quarantine period at the open prisons in Pallansena, Negombo he was transferred to the Angunukolapelessa prisons.

Meanwhile a protest calling for the release of Mr Ramanayake was held in Colombo recently.