Courtesy Outlook The National Child Protection Authority (NCPA) has stated that strict laws are required to prevent child exploitation A young bonded child laborer rests his head in his handsAP Photo/ Kevin Frayer Days after the death of a 16-year-old girl who was employed as domestic help by a politician, Sri Lanka is set to […]

Courtesy Hiru News The CID has commenced an investigation into a complaint made regarding protests in public places violating quarantine laws and endangering public health. A statement issued by the Police Media Division stated that the investigations are being carried out into a complaint lodged with the CID by Damgalla Gamage Danushka Dilshan Gamage, Chairman […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has arrested a 31-year-old over commercial sexual exploitation of a foreign woman, says Police Spokesman Senior DIG Ajith Rohana. The suspect, who is a resident of Wellawatte area, had brought the 36-year-old Uzbekistani woman in question to Sri Lanka on the pretext of providing employment, however, he had […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The almanac case filed against two accused including Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa was today fixed for September 15 by Colombo High Court. The defence sought a calling date before the matter is fixed for trial. Accordingly, the case against two accused including former Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa for allegedly misappropriating Rs.29.4 million […]

Courtesy Adaderana Court has ordered service providers to produce telephone conversation records of Rishad Bathiudeen’s wife and three others in connection to the death of the 16-year-old domestic worker at the parliamentarian’s house. Colombo Additional Magistrate Rajindra Jayasuriya ordered for the records to be handed over to the Borella Police when a motion filed by […]

වෛද්‍ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්‍යයන වැඩසටහන. මහජන යුතුකම ඉටු කිරීමෙන් බැහැර නොවන ලෙස ශ්‍රී ලංකා නීතීඥ සංගමයට මහජන පෙත්සමක්….! ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවට අනනුකූල වගන්ති තිබූ 2019 කොරෝනා වෛරස් රෝගය තාවකාලික විධිවිධාන පනත් කෙටුම්පතට එරෙහිව ශ්‍රී ලංකා නීතීඥ සංගමය විසින් ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයේ කරුණු නොදැක්වීම සහ එම පනත් කෙටුම්පත අනුමත කිරීම සහ 2021 ජූලි 12 දින ස්වර්ණවාහිනී […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Residents of the area yesterday staged a protest compelling the authorities to hold a formal investigation into the death of a 16 year old girl at former Minister Rishan Badiudeen’s residence who had died of serious burn injuries. The victim J.Ishalini was a resident of Diagama West in Agarapathana The protest […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Supreme Court has awarded one million rupees against the five Police Officers attached to Peliyagoda Police Station as compensation for torture leading to the death of a father of two children, a seven-year-old son and a daughter of one month at the time of his death.  Delivering the judgment, the […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror It was revealed that the girl working at the house of former Minister Rishad Bathiudeen in Borella, who died of burn injuries, was brought to the house as a domestic helper when she was 15 years old. Police Spokesman SDIG Ajith Rohana said the police has decided to conduct further investigations […]

By Norman Palihawadana and Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island *P CoI faulted for not making specific recommendation against Ranil *Criminal liability of CNI and SIS Chief highlighted *Respond within month or face the consequences The National Catholic Committee for Justice has urged President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to implement the recommendations of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry […]

Courtesy Hiru News Ven. Attaragama Pagnalankara Thera visited the CID today to lodge a complaint regarding an incident that was being shared on social media in connection to the exploitation of a 15-year-old-girl. Ven. Attaragama Pagnalankara Thero expressed views addressing the media.

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් ළමා අපචාර බහුතරයක් සිදුවන්නේ සමාජයේ දැනුවත් භාවයකින් යුත් සමාජ පිළිගැනීමක් ඇති පුද්ගලයන් අතින් වන බවත්, සමාජයේ මිනිසුන් තුල ආකල්පමය වෙනසක් ඇති කරමින් මල් වැනි දරුවන් දෙස ආදරයෙන් කරුණාවෙන් බැලීමට මිනිසුන්ගේ මනස හුරු කල යුතු බවත්, අමාත්‍යාංශ පරිශ්‍රයේ පැවති මාධ්‍ය සාකච්ඡාවක දී වර්තමානයේ වාර්ථාවන ළමා අපචාර පිළිබඳව මාධ්‍යවේදීන් ඇසු ප්‍රශ්නයකට පිළිතුරු […]

Courtesy Mainichi Japan Japanese version NAGOYA — Immigration bureau officials here may have misled a doctor examining a detained Sri Lankan woman into thinking she could be feigning illness to get temporary release, her bereaved sisters reportedly heard during a July 2 meeting with the doctor. Wishma Sandamali, who was detained at the Nagoya Regional […]

Courtesy The Japan Today NAGOYA A criminal complaint has been filed with prosecutors over the death in March of a Sri Lankan woman who was being held at an immigration facility in Nagoya. Masaki Hirata, a Nagoya City University scholar and supporter of Ratnayake Liyanage Wishma Sandamali, accused an unknown person of failing to provide […]

Courtesy Adaderana The National Operation Centre for Prevention of COVID-19 Outbreak (NOCPCO) has not granted approval for the sale of liquor online. Head of NOCPCO, Army Commander General Shavendra Silva confirmed this decision today (June 17). The Ministry of Finance yesterday (June 16) gave approval to the recommendation made by the Department of Excise to […]

Courtesy Adaderana Arjuna Hettiarachchi, the chairman of the local shipping agency representing the ‘X-Press Pearl’ vessel, has been granted bail by the Colombo High Court.   Chairman of Sea Consortium Lanka (Pvt) Ltd, Mr Hettiarachchi was arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) today after surrendering through his attorneys.  He was subsequently produced before the Colombo […]

By Zhaki Abdullah Courtesy Channel News Asia A Singapore-registered container ship sank off Sri Lanka last week, causing the worst marine ecological disaster for the South Asian country. SINGAPORE: As Sri Lanka deals with its worst marine ecological disaster after the sinking of a Singapore-registered container ship, questions have been raised about who bears the responsibilities in […]

BY JON JACKSON  Courtesy The Newsweek State prosecutors in Sri Lanka‘s Colombo Magistrate’s Court on Monday accused the operators of the ship that caught fire with 25 tons of acid onboard of a cover-up. The Deputy Solicitor General alleged that Sea Consortium Lanka, the local agent for the ship, deleted several emails exchanged with the vessel’s captain […]

Ajith Siriwardana and Yohan Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror While claiming that five committees have been appointed to work on the procedures to demand claims from the X-Press Pearl vessel, Ports and Shipping Minister Rohitha Abeygunawardane said today steps were being taken to seek assistance of the international legal experts on the matter. The Minister […]

Courtesy Mailonline The MV X-Press Pearl was carrying hundreds of tonnes of chemicals and plastics when it burned for almost two weeks just off Sri Lanka’s coast A Sri Lankan court hearing into the fire and sinking of a container ship off Colombo was told Monday that its local agent had deleted e-mails vital to […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has been tasked with investigating those who are misleading the public by spreading false propaganda on social media, Police said. Police Spokesman DIG Ajith Rohana said a special police team has been appointed to investigate such false reports. He said the public was facing various inconveniences […]

Source : 112 Ukraine Hennadiy Havrylov was acquitted by the court and eventually arrived in Odesa Hennadiy Havrylov, the Ukrainian captain of the Avant Garde ship who stayed in detention in Sri Lanka since 2016 returned home. Dmytro Kuleba, the Foreign Minister posted that on Twitter. “I welcome the return of Hennadiy Havrylov, the captain of the Avant Garde vessel who was […]

Courtesy Adaderana Another six individuals who attended the birthday party hosted by Chandimal Jayasinghe and Piumi Hansimali have been arrested, Police Media Spokesperson DIG Ajith Rohana said. Event organizer Chandimal Jayasinghe and model Piumi Hansimali were arrested yesterday (May 31) for violation of quarantine regulations. The duo had had reportedly organized a birthday party at […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Attorney General has filed indictments in the Puttalam High Court under the Prevention of Terrorism Act and the Terrorist Financing Act against six accused of collecting explosives and maintaining an explosive manufacturing base in Wanathawilluwa in 2019 January.  He requested the Chief Justice for a Trial at Bar to try […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Cabinet of Ministers have approved the drafting of legislation to protect against the spreading of false and misleading statements through the internet. The government says that the spread of false information on the internet poses a serious threat and is seen as being used to divide society, to spread hatred and to […]

Courtesy Adaderana An Assistant Superintendent of Sri Lanka Customs has been arrested over his alleged involvement in the falsification of documents to re-export 23 containers of dried Indonesian areca nuts to India as Sri Lankan areca nuts. The arrest has been made by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), according to the Police Spokesperson DIG Ajith […]

Courtesy The Straits Times COLOMBO (NYTIMES) – Last year’s winner of Mrs World, a beauty pageant for married women, said she would return her crown after she snatched one off the head of the 2021 winner of Mrs Sri Lanka World, claiming that she was divorced – a violation of pageant rules. Ms Pushpika de Silva […]

Courtesy Adaderana Reigning Mrs. World Caroline Jurie and model Chula Padmendra, who were arrested by the Cinnamon Gardens Police, have been granted police bail. They were taken into custody this afternoon over the recent controversy at the Mrs. Sri Lanka beauty pageant held at the Nelum Pokuna Theatre on Sunday (April 04). The arrests have […]

Kirthimala Gunasekera Senior Lawyer Interesting informative article on ‘’DIGITALIZATION AND MODERNIZING TRADE BUSIENSS AND CONSUMERISM FOR THE CITIZEN’’ 4th April 2021 published in  Lanka Web .  E Land registration will soon be operating the land registration system to secure ownership . However it  can be a source of ownership insecurity,  without consumer protection laws  The […]

Courtesy Adaderana Attorney General Dappula de Livera has summoned the Conservator-General of Forests and other officials of the Forest Conservation Department to take into consideration and verify the recent media reports on forest destruction. According to the Coordinating Officer of the Attorney General, State Counsel Nishara Jayaratne, the relevant meeting is expected to be held […]