The jurisdiction of the Mullaiteevu Magistrate has become a place of contentious judicial, legal and political battle ground due to the Kurunthur Malai incident and the excavation of a mass grave consisting of what appears to be the remains of LTTE carders. The Mullaiteevu Magistrate’s Office has come under direct threat from Member of Parliament Sarath Weerasekara who identified the Magistrate as a ‘Tamil’ Judge who is making orders inside a ‘Sinhala Buddhist’ State. Despite condemning statements by the BASL and Lawyers’ Collective and protests by Bars across the North and the East the pressure seemed to have continued on the judge in performing his judicial duties independently.
