COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's chief justice appeared on Friday for the first time before a parliamentary select committee considering an impeachment motion against her filed by the government.
The bid to impeach Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake, Sri Lanka's first female head of the Supreme Court, has raised the risk of a destabilising clash between the President Mahinda Rajapaksa's government and the judiciary.
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