July 15, Colombo (LNW): The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka has dismissed a Fundamental Rights petition filed by a lawyer seeking to prevent the Presidential election without a referendum on the 19th Amendment to the Constitution.
The court imposed a Rs. 500,000 cost on the petitioner.
The three-judge bench, consisting of Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya, Justice Arjuna Obeysekera, and Justice Priyantha Fernando, concluded that the petition lacked merit.
Attorney-at-Law Aruna Laksiri, who filed the petition, was ordered to pay the cost by July 31.
Laksiri had argued that the 19th Amendment was not properly passed with a referendum and thus challenged the holding of a Presidential election this year under its provisions.
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