Help find Sarath Silva’s trousers lost in the Diyawanna banks!

From LankaNewsWeb

Do humans wear clothing to cover their nudity? Or else, it just because others wear them? This question comes to our mind when considering the conduct of former chief justice Sarath Nanda Silva. Yesterday (01), he went to Medamulana to listen to a sermon, and sat close to Mahinda and Shiranthi, just like he did as the bestman at their wedding. Now, he was at this political funeral of Mahinda. True friends are like that.

However, a few months ago, addressing an anti-Rajapaksa rally at the Ananda Samarakoon outdoor theatre in Nugegoda, it was this same Sarath Silva who apologized to the entire nation for having heard the Helping Hambantota case wrongly and having freed Mahinda Rajapaksa, the tsunami thief. Sarath Silva has proved several times that shamelessness is worse than the office of the chief justice.

One case in point is when he was caught by police with a beautiful female lawyer sans his trousers in a car parked by the Diyawanna Oya banks. A naked Sarath Silva called from his mobile phone the then fiheries minister and his Law College buddy Mahinda Rajapaksa. Making maximum use of the opportunity, Rajapaksa got him freed. But, that was the beginning of Sarath Silva’s getting arrested by Mahinda Rajapaksa. In his hurry, Sarath Silva escaped from police and went home without his trousers thanking Mahinda. From that day on, he does not wear trousers.

Showing his gratitude, Sarath Silva helped Mahinda on more than one occasion during the period he was the CJ. He paved the way for Chandrika to go home early and for Mahinda to contest the presidential election. He saved Mahinda who was about to go to prison for having swindled millions of tsunami aid money, and threatened the complainant, Kabir Hashim, the present UNP general secretary, with imprisonment if he did not withdraw the case at the Supreme Court.

When observing the Five Precepts, Sarath Silva does not say the third and fifth ones, and he is a born storey teller and a good drinker. On Chandrika’s order and using his knowledge and together with G.L. and Jayampathy, he made a big contribution to the committee tasked with drafting a new constitution. It should be mentioned here that the expertise of Sarath Silva, the bad man he is, on constitutional law is second only to that of the late SC judge Mark Fernando.

During the deliberations of this committee, while having a drink Sarath Silva targets his Law College buddy Mahinda as his ‘bite.’ Mahinda, a complete ignoramus of the law, was prepared for the exam by his batchmates the late Jeyaraj Fernandopulle, former SC judge Nihal Jayasinghe and Sarath Silva. At that time, most of the Law College qestion papers consisted of multiple choice questions. Bribing the college’s peons, Sarath Silva and others lift the question papers on the night before the exam and train Mahinda, not to understand the questions, but to underline the third choice for the first question, first choice for the second question etc. But, Mahinda does the reverse. For the first question, he underlines the second choice and for the second question he underlines the third choice. “At that time, he proved to us that all his generations were herdsmen,” Sarath Silva says to loud laughter by all those present.

That Sarath Silva apologized to the entire nation just a few months ago for not having sent Mahinda Rajapaksa to prison.  Both he and Mahinda do not remember the past. Both think that we too, are fools like them. Anyhow, we appreciate Sarath Silva’s decision to get buried along with Mahinda.

N.B.

It was the then president Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga who committed the historic wrong of having appointed Sarath Silva as the CJ. On the night previous to the appointment day, Chandrika told renowned human rights lawyer and her close friend, senior advocate R.K.W. Gunasekara who asked as to who would be appointed to the position, “Don’t worry, Mark is my choice.” Chandrika assured him that Mark would be made the CJ, on the basis of his seniority and expertise on law.

However, it did not happen. Mark was cut because he was a Catholic, and Sinhala Buddhist Sarath Silva was made the CJ. R.K.W. Gunasekara could not forget, until his death because he was such a sensitive person, this outrageous breach of promise by a president. Several times, Chandrika apologized to him, but he never pardoned her. Today, the entire nation is experiencing the result of that wrong.