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| Saturday, 14 June 2003 |
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by Wasantha Ramanayake The Fundamental Rights application filed by Elections Commissioner Dayananda Dissanayake against the obstruction to his retirement, was listed for re-support for September 8. The court pointed out that the petitioner Dayananda Dissanayake had not prayed for his retirement from the office of the Election Commissioner in his petition and observed that it was necessary to be included as a relief. Accordingly, petitioner's counsel Elmore Perera moved for time to file the amended petition. The Bench comprised Justices Dr.(Mrs.) Shirani Bandaranayake, P. Edussuriya and Nihal Jayasinghe. Petitioner complained that his Fundamental Rights were violated by the failure of the President to appoint an Election Commissioner on the recommendation of the Constitutional Council, preventing him from retiring from his highly stressful office at the age of 61. He claimed that he had had five heart attacks. He also claimed ten million rupees as compensation. He cited Attorney General, Secretary to the President, Speaker and the Chairman of the Constitutional Council, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe, Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapakse, H.L. de Silva PC, Dr. A. R. B. Amarasinghe, L. H. G. Weerasekera, M. Jameel, P. Sundaralingam, R. C. Karunakaran and S. S. Wijeratne, the members of the Constitutional Council, as respondents. |
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