The HC judge who sent illicit threats via SMS is MaRa’s naughty ‘Chooty nangi’ -caught red handed
(Lanka-e-News-03.Dec.2012, 11.50PM)


Following the notification to all judges Island wide yesterday about this meeting , illicit threats cum SMS messages had been sent to the judges. The message is thus : The CJ is trying to use all the judges as her shield . Hence it is appropriate that you do not participate in this meeting.(in English) . There is information that you can be vulnerable to attacks by goons ( the last sentence is in Sinhala)

A majority of judges who received this SMS message believed that this was a hidden threat and that this message has been sent by someone who is closely associated with MaRa’s goons and who is aware of the violence they unleash. However when the messages were probed individually it was discovered that these messages have emerged from the mobile phone No. 077 3316361.

When Lanka e news tracked down this number ,our journalist Pradeep spoke to the person at the other end of this phone Number. A lady who answered said , she is a judge but did not reveal her name, and told us to find it out ourselves. Later when we investigated we found it was the Puttalam High court judge S D Arfa Thassim. Her native town is Hambantota and maintains very close ties with the Rajapakse family. In fact , Despotic MaRa addresses her fondly as ‘ chooty nangi’

Our full discussion with her can be heard by clicking on the button we have introduced on the front page of this website, or follow the link at end of this news. The words she used were not in par with the status of a judge however – it was pavement market language .

She claimed that she received information about death threats which she communicated to her friends. When we questioned her if there were death threats , why didn’t she inform the security divisions, she asked , ‘who am I to pass information ?’ In other words she had forgotten that she is a judge. Anyway , she was fighting shy of revealing who informed her of the death threats . When she was asked , is there anything wrong in the CJ convening a meeting ? , and who else does she expect the CJ or the Judges Association to summon for a meeting otherwise than judges ? she was dumbfounded.. She who talked about death threats, in the same breath denied there were such threats.

Doesn’t this MaRa bred High court Judge know that threatening via SMS messages deliberately or otherwise is a punishable offence ? It is well to recall , an Editor of Lanka e news was arrested on a frame up when he spoke on the phone for just ten seconds and inquired from the brother, of an arrested alleged arsonist (an underworld criminal) whether Lanka e news was set on fire. The Editor was remanded for 7 days on the flimsy ground that he held out threats. By that same token the judge Thassim had committed an even worse offence. Moreover she being a judge she should respect the laws much more than an ordinary layman. Is the MaRa regime practicing double standards ?: one set of laws for the Editor and another for their ‘chooty nangi’ Thassim? Readers can get a clear picture by accessing the link below to listen to the dialogue mentioned in the earlier paragraph . It gives an idea of the already prevailing truly lawless situation in the country created by the despotic Rajapakses desperately seeking to safeguard its moribund Govt. supported by these shameless sordid judges of the ‘chooty nangi’ caliber who are a disgrace to the sacrosanct judiciary prostituting their exalted official positions merely to ingratiate into the favor of the political bigwigs to solely and wholly achieve their ulterior , self seeking and unscrupulous motives betraying their own brothers and sisters in the profession. Listen this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ge5YfdNoyI&feature=youtu.be