evidence: These rights are incorrectly portrayed as rights already given. A few days ago (17 Feb. 2023) I was rather pleased to see the headline in The Island reading "TNA MP wants Jaffna court to send him summons in Tamil." It was about Mr. S. Shritharan, TNA MP, who was served summons by the police written in the Sinhalese language to appear for an inquiry into demonstrations against President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s visit to Jaffna. Shridharan wanted it in Tamil. The police then gave him their translation which he declined saying it must have the Court Registrar’s imprimatur. The shrewd MP was right. It was a police inquiry and not a judicial inquiry. [...] The Murder of the Tamil Language in Court Usually, when a language is used officially, it grows and flowers. We see that with Sinhalese. With Tamil too I have seen good Tamil from the NE Administrative Service Officers while there is also the unnecessary change in Tamil accepted in ordinary use – for example for "he conducted," changing the word nadathinaar to nadaathinaar and the interjection of Sanskrit words when there are good Tamil words. Grammatical violence like "valuable things is there" (LNW of 9 Feb. 2023) or "from every divisions" is common even in newscasts and from pulpits.