Sri Lanka's Supreme Court voided the 2019 presidential pardon of Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thera and ordered the remainder of a six-year contempt sentence served. [1] BBC filed the ruling. [1] Newswire filed the bench calling Sirisena's pardon arbitrary and unlawful. [2] A judgment is not a prison intake. Print overturned. Do not print a photographed surrender.

The underlying conviction was contempt and intimidation in the Prageeth Eknaligoda disappearance file. A pardon does not erase that conviction in the court's own sentence. Later copy that he could not be found at a temple belongs to a later edition. Thursday prints the ruling.

Print voided. Leave a named return to custody to the edition that owns a named return.
Thursday is not a cell photo.

Voided pardons return convicts to fugitive status without returning them to cells. The temple whereabouts story belongs to a later edition. Thursday voids the paper, not the man.

Voided paper frees no one and jails no one; Thursday voids only paper. Paper rulings precede manhunts. Temples wait.

Sirisena's signature is what the Supreme Court struck. The Eknaligoda contempt term is what it put back. Neither act requires the monk to be standing in the dock on Thursday.

A voided pardon is paper, not a capture. Thursday restores the contempt term. The monk need not be in the dock for the ruling to stand.

Neither act requires the monk in the dock on Thursday. Paper rulings precede manhunts. Temples wait.

Thursday's paper ruling is not a capture. Paper rulings precede manhunts. Temples wait.

Thursday's paper ruling is not a capture. Paper rulings precede manhunts. Temples wait.

-- PRIYA SHARMA, Delhi