Contempt of Court case against Wigneswaran fixed for inquiry

The Contempt of Court action filed against former Northern Province Chief Minister and former Supreme Court Justice C.V. Wigneswaran and two others was fixed for inquiry by the Court of Appeal.

Court of Appeal Justice Mahinda Samayawardhena yesterday decided to fix the matter for inquiry on May 23 and 31.

At a previous occasion, the Court of Appeal overruled the preliminary objections raised by three respondents regarding the Contempt of Court action filed against them by Provincial Council Minister B.Denishwaran.

Filing a Contempt of Court action in the Court of Appeal, B. Denishwaran alleged that former Northern Province Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran and Ananthi Sasitharan and K. Sivanesan have willfully acted in contempt of the Court of Appeal order since they prevented him from acting as a Minister of the Northern Province.

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, 2018 issued an Interim Order preventing the decision of former Northern Province Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran to expel B.Denishwaran from functioning as the Fisheries and Transport Minister in the province.

The petitioner B. Denishwaran had challenged former Northern Province Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran in the Court of Appeal, complaining that the Chief Minister had no power to appoint or remove any Provincial Council minister.

Former Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran had also filed an appeal in the Supreme Court challenging the Court of Appeal’s Interim Order to prevent Wigneswaran’s decision to remove B. Denishwaran from functioning as the Minister of Fisheries and Transport in the province.

Counsel Suren Fernando appeared for the petitioner Denishwaran. President’s Counsel K. Kanag-iswaran appeared for former Chief Minister Wigneswaran.

 



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