Sri Lanka appoints Tamil as Chief Justice
- Sri Lanka’s President Maithripala Sirisena on Friday appointed a Tamil judge as the country’s Chief Justice, the first member of the minority community to hold the post in more than two decades.
- K. Sripavan (62) was sworn in on 30 January, ending a crisis in the Supreme Court triggered by the sacking of former Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake two years ago.
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