For the second time, I speak on this matter. … For the third time, I speak on this matter. Please, venerables, I ask the Sangha to listen. This monk Channa has committed an offense, but refuses to recognize it. The Sangha does a legal procedure of ejection against the monk Channa for not recognizing an offense, prohibiting him from living with the Sangha. Any monk who approves of doing a legal procedure of ejection against the monk Channa for not recognizing an offense, prohibiting him from living with the Sangha, should remain silent. Any monk who doesn’t approve should speak up. The Sangha has done the legal procedure of ejection against the monk Channa for not recognizing an offense, prohibiting him from living with the Sangha. The Sangha approves and is therefore silent. I will remember it thus.’ Monks, you should proclaim from monastery to monastery that the Sangha has done a legal procedure of ejection against the monk Channa for not recognizing an offense, prohibiting him from living with the Sangha.”

The group of twelve on illegitimate legal procedures “When a legal procedure of ejection for not recognizing an offense has three qualities, it’s illegitimate, contrary to the Monastic Law, and improperly disposed of: it’s done in the absence of the accused, it’s done without questioning the accused, it’s done without the admission of the accused.