Since the court order yesterday (12) regarding Ranjan Ramanayake being sentenced to four years imprisonment, various stories about the Supreme Court verdict given to him have been posting on social media.
He has also become the most popular character on social media in the past few hours. Those who used to blame him are also criticizing the sentence given to him.
Mr. Ranjan Ramanayake was sentenced for his comments to the media after a discussion with the then Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe at Temple Trees on 21-08-2017. That is to declare the majority of judges and lawyers in this country to be corrupt.
Ven. Magalkande Sudaththa Thero and retired Air Force officer Sunil Perera filed a case in the Supreme Court against this and the Attorney General had filed a charge sheet against Ranjan Ramanayake.
The case was heard by a three-judge comprising Justices Sisira de Abrew, Vijith Malalgoda and Preethi Padman Surasena.
Announcing the verdict yesterday, the three-member committee said that the allegation of contempt of court leveled against the respondent Ranjan Ramanayake was proved beyond a reasonable doubt.
According to Ranjan Ramanayake, the Supreme Court bench had said that the evidence had revealed that the majority of lawyers and judges in this country were corrupt and that they were working to save the corrupt by working for money.
However, the plaintiff Ranjan Ramanayake had stated in his statement before the court that he had erroneously stated that he was a scoundrel by hand, but while examining his post-defendant role, the statement of the defendant stated that it would be broken.
Pointing out that the respondent Ranjan Ramanayake had made various statements to the media during the last days of the trial as well as on the last days of the case, Presiding Judge Sisira de Abrew stated that he would not withdraw his statement that the earlier statement was that the judge was corrupt. That was emphasized. Presiding Judge Sisira de Abrew has stated that the respondent had told the media at the Supreme Court complex that he was prepared to face imprisonment for that. He had been sentenced to four years imprisonment with hard labor, stating that there was an intention to insult the judges and that the charge against Uttara Ranjan Ramanayake would be proved beyond a reasonable doubt.
Looking at Ranjan Ramanayake’s imprisonment, it seems that he was actually imprisoned because of the entire media process in the country.
As we all know, Ranjan Ramanayake is a cleaver for speech . He is also a person who likes the media. He is a man who speaks his mind straight out of nowhere. Journalists were well aware of this. Where is Ranjan Ramanayake? There are journalists. That’s to get a rising voice cut from him.
He currently has 21 cases pending in court over his voice cut and his conduct. On the way to and from court, some members of the media ask him for a voice cut from the court premises. He has to go to jail today because of this voice cut. The presiding judge had also pointed that out.
covid 19 The media, which could not provide even a minute of media coverage when the poor were given 5 kilos of rice during the epidemic, was seen yesterday covering his imprisonment, the abolition of his seat and the loss of his right to vote. .
For example, Derana News spent 11.08 minutes on Ranjan yesterday and Hiru News 10.41 minutes airing Ranjan’s incident.