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.

-- PRIYA SHARMA, Delhi