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Appeal Court issues order preventing arrest of Judge Pilapitiya

20 Feb 2020

The Appeal court has issued an order preventing the arrest of Interdicted High Court Judge Gihan Pilapitiya without a Magistrate's Court order. The order has been issued after Judge Gihan Pilapitiya  filed a writ petition before the Appeal Court yesterday (20). The petition requested the court to issue an interim injunction order preventing his arrest. On the 11th of February, Attorney General (AG) Dappula de Livera had ordered Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP) Senior DIG C.D. Wickramaratne to invoke the judicial process on Pilapitiya. The AG had earlier instructed the Director of the Colombo Crime Division (CCD) to obtain a warrant and arrest interdicted Judge Pilapitiya and produce him before court. The AG directed the CCD to arrest Pilapitiya for conspiring to fabricate false evidence along with MP Ranjan Ramanayake. However, Wikramarathne had instead appointed a five-member committee to study the instructions issued by the AG.


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