{"id":52872,"date":"2017-05-10T01:56:33","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T05:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=52872"},"modified":"2017-05-10T01:57:47","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T05:57:47","slug":"geetha-kumarasinghe-lodges-appeal-in-supreme-court-writ-of-quo-warranto-issued-by-court-of-appeal-against-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=52872","title":{"rendered":"Geetha Kumarasinghe Lodges Appeal in Supreme Court  Against Writ of Quo Warranto Issued by Court of Appeal."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by Chitra Weerarathne<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>UPFA Parliamentarian for Galle district Geetha Kumarasinghe, yesterday, filed an appeal in the Supreme Court against a recent Court of Appeal judgement, which disqualified her from holding office as a Member of Parliament on the grounds that she was a dual citizen at the time of handing over nominations.<\/p>\n<p>Some residents of Galle have filed a writ application in the Court of Appeal complaining that Kumarasinghe is a dual citizen of Switzerland and Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to the Constitution of Sri Lanka and the Parliamentary Elections Act, she is disqualified from holding office as an MP, they have argued.<\/p>\n<p>The Court of Appeal issued a writ of quo warrant, disqualifying Kumarasinghe from sitting and voting in Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>The appellant Kumarasinghe has sought the permission of the court to allow her to submit fresh recent documents, pertaining to the matter.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:The Island<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton52872\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D52872&amp;text=Geetha%20Kumarasinghe%20Lodges%20Appeal%20in%20Supreme%20Court%20%20Against%20Writ%20of%20Quo%20Warranto%20Issued%20by%20Court%20of%20Appeal.&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Chitra Weerarathne UPFA Parliamentarian for Galle district Geetha Kumarasinghe, yesterday, filed an appeal in the Supreme Court against a recent Court of Appeal judgement, which disqualified her from holding office as a Member of Parliament on the grounds that she was a dual citizen at the time of handing over nominations. Some residents of &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=52872\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Geetha Kumarasinghe Lodges Appeal in Supreme Court  Against Writ of Quo Warranto Issued by Court of Appeal.&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52872"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52872"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52875,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52872\/revisions\/52875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}