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The Supreme Court yesterday rejected the motion seeking
bail for Venerable Pannala Pragnaloka Thera of the Welikadawatte Temple
Rajagiriya who had been remanded on a Supreme Court order for failing to
answer notice to appear before the Court.
A group of over fifty Buddhist monks were in Court
yesterday to see the bail application being supported. When the Judges
came on the Bench the other people in the hall stood up and courtesied to
the judges. The monks remained seated. They did not stand up to courtesy
the judges.
A group of Buddhist clergymen outside the Supreme
Court after a bail application filed on behalf of Ven. Pannala
Pannaloka thero, remanded for contravening a law on the use of
loudspeakers between 10.00 p.m and 6.00 a.m., was refused by the
Court.
Pic by Kamal Bogoda
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