The Court of Appeal yesterday fixed for January 31 the delivering of its order regarding the preliminary objections raised by former Northern Province Chief Minister and former Supreme Court Justice C.V. Wigneswaran regarding a contempt of court action filed against him by Provincial Council Minister B. Denishwaran.
The Court of Appeal made this order as a part of contempt of court proceedings filed by B. Denishwaran alleging that former Northern Province Chief Minister Wigneswaran, Ananthi Sasitharan and K. Sivanesan willfully acted in contempt of the Court of Appeal order since they prevented him from acting as a Northern Province Minister.
Denishwaran stated that the first respondent, Justice Wigneswaran has, by his conduct and statements, acted in contumacious and willful disobedience of the order of Court of Appeal and thus committed an act of contempt against the authority and dignity of the Court of Appeal.
The Court of Appeal on June 29 issued an Interim Order preventing the decision of former Northern Province Chief Minister Wigneswaran to expel Denishwaran from functioning as the Fisheries and Transport Minister in the Province.
The petitioner Denishwaran had challenged the former Northern Province Chief Minister in the Court of Appeal, complaining that the Chief Minister had no power to appoint or remove any Provincial Council Minister.
Former Chief Minister Wigneswaran had also filed an appeal in Supreme Court challenging the Court of Appeal’s Interim Order to prevent his decision to remove Denishwaran from functioning as the Fisheries and Transport Minister in the Province.
Counsel Suren Fernando appeared for the petitioner Denishwaran. President’s Counsel K. Kanag-Iswaran appeared for former Chief Minister Wigneswaran. M.A. Sumanthiran, PC, appeared for the fifth respondent.
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