The Supreme Court yesterday rejected the motion seeking bail for Venerable Pannala Pragnaloka Thera of the Welikadawatte Temple Rajagiriya who had been remanded on a Supreme Court order for failing to answer notice to appear before the Court. A group of over fifty Buddhist monks were in Court yesterday to see the bail application being supported. When the Judges came on the Bench the other people in the hall stood up and courtesied to the judges. The monks remained seated. They did not stand up to courtesy the judges. Consequently the Chief Justice Sarath N. Silva told K. Thiranagama Counsel for the applicant that the monks, like all the other people in the hall, should rise and courtesy the Court. The monks should follow the conventional procedure, or they should leave the hall and return after the Court had commenced proceedings. The Chief Justice told the counsel that if a positive response is not shown by the group of monks, the Court will take appropriate action. Counsel Thiranagama then spoke to the monks. They remained seated without any response. The Court then called the motion for bail and dismissed it. The monks then got up and left. In this case, the Environmental Foundation Limited had petitioned the Supreme Court, alleging that the Venerable Pragnaloka Thera had breached the noise pollution guidelines issued by the Supreme Court and had used unauthorized amplifiers, prior to 6 a.m. The priest had been noticed to appear before the Court in respect of this issue. He had failed to do so. The Welikadawatte police had been ordered to remand him and to produce him before the Court on September 15, 2008, The original fundamental rights violation application filed by the EFL limited will be called before the Court, on that day as scheduled. The Bench comprised the Chief Justice Sarath N. Silva, Justice Andrew Somawansa and Justice J. Balapatabandi.