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Chief justice Sarath N Silva has expressed his disappointment in open courts as to how a large sum of money has been allocated from next year's budget for former President Chandrika Kumaratunge. Rs.29 million has been allocated for President Kumaratunge front the budget for 2006. Chief Justice aired his views when he took up a petition filed by President Mahinda Rajapakse asking to verify the legality of the supplementary budget with relevance to the budget for 2006. Chief Justice Sarath N.Silva said he was surprised to see Rs.29 million is set a part to former president alone where as only Rs.29 million is allocated for the ten judges of the Supreme Court Chief Justice said he could not approve such a huge amount of money going out from the budget to a single person. Only six million rupees have been allocated for the former president D.B.Wijetunge, the chief justice added. "This is an unequal treatment", he said. The secret decision of the Supreme Court on the legality of the supplementary budget will be conveyed to the President Mahinda Rajapakse and the speaker of parliament. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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