By R Kirubakaran Express News Service Courtesy The New Indian Express Trio who forged his identity papers and buried his body arrested by police. COIMBATORE: Coimbatore police on Sunday confirmed the death, in the city, of Sri Lanka’s underworld kingpin Angoda Lokka. One man and two women, including a Sri Lankan national, were arrested for allegedly […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Attorney General has filed indictments in the Colombo High Court against former minister Dr Rajitha Senaratne and former Chairman of State Pharmaceutical Corporation (SPC) Mohamed Rumi, in connection with the controversial press conference on ‘white van abductions’. AG Dappula De Livera has also filed Discharge Orders with the Colombo Magistrate’s Court on […]

Courtesy Hiru News Update: Former Director of the CID, Shani Abeysekera who was arrested this morning, remanded until August 7 by Gampaha Magistrates Court

නීතිඥවරයෙක් පොලිස්පතිට පැමිණිලි කරයි. ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ (19 වන ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධනය, ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණ තීරණ උල්ලංඝනය කරමින් ක්‍රියාත්මක කළද ) 12.2 සහ 12.3 ව්‍යවස්ථාවල ඉංග්‍රීසි පරිවර්තනයේ race යන්න දක්වා ඇති අතර වර්තමානයේ නිකුත් කරන උප්පැන්න සහතිකයේ ‘ජාතිය’ / ‘race’ ලෙස දක්වා ඇත. ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ දැක්වෙන විධිවිධාන අනුව ‘ජාතිය’ / ‘race’ යන්න පිළිගත් තත්ත්වයක් වන අතර එසේ වුවත් […]

Courtesy Hiru News Police have arrested an excise controller and another person with liquor and ethanol spirits in the Pamunuwa, Uswetakeiyawa area. The suspects were produced before the Welisara Magistrate’s Court today and remanded till August 05.

Courtesy Hiru News A Malaysian court has sentenced former Prime Minister Najib Razak to 12 years in jail after finding him guilty on all seven counts in the first of several multi-million dollar corruption trials, the BBC reports. Najib had pleaded not guilty to the charges of criminal breach of trust, money laundering and abuse […]

Courtesy Hiru News Prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa stressed that the law should take its due course, when he answered a phone call pertaining to the demolition of an archaeological site in Kuruengala town, says minister Wimal Weerawansa. The minister referred to this when he attended the ‘Salakuna’ programme of Hiru TV last night

PMD President Gotabaya Rajapaksa today participated in another campaign tour in support of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) candidates in Galle. The President commenced his campaign tour from Hiniduma and participated in a public gathering at Neluwa Public Playground organized by the SLPP candidate Sampath Athukorala. President Rajapaksa visited the Neluwa National College and […]

Sheain Fernandopulle Courtesy The Daily Mirror The interim report compiled by the committee appointed to probe over destruction of a building with archaeological value in Kurunegala, has proposed to take legal action against those responsible. The interim report was handed over to Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa today by the head of the committee, Director General of […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Attorney General has informed the Supreme Court that limited objections will be filed against the fundamental rights petition seeking immediate investigations against terrorists responsible for the 1987 Aranthalawa Massacre. The petition was called before the Supreme Court Judge Bench consisting of Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya, Murdu Fernando, and S. Thurairajah today (22). […]

T. Farook Thajudeen Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Colombo High Court issued summons on Elections Commission member Prof. Ratnajeevan Hoole and three others for contempt of Court for allegedly publishing a distorted version of a court interim order. Senior Counsel N.R.Sivendran appearing with Danushan Ganeshayogan, Anusha Raman and Achini Ranasinghe instructed by K. Ganeshayogan for […]

Nimanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) has initiated an inquiry into the threats said to have made by prominent underworld criminals currently under detention in the Boossa Prison to three senior prison officers, that they have the capacity to kill anyone they want, even the president or the defence secretary. […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Colombo High Court today issued summons on former minister Patali Champika Ranawaka, ex-Welikada OIC Sudath Asmadala and the then minister Ranawaka’s driver Dilum Thusitha Kumara to appear in court on August 20 over the Rajagiriya accident case. Colombo High Court Judge Gihan Kulatunga issued summons over the accident which took place […]

Courtesy Hiru News The DIG in charge of the Anti-Terrorism and Investigation Division Nalaka de Silva who has been interdicted, admitted that it was wrong to not inform the rest of the police regarding the open warrant obtained from the Colombo Magistrate’s Court to arrest Saharan Hashim before the Easter attack. This was when he […]

Courtesy Hiru News The Police Media Spokesman stated that the law will be strictly enforced against those who make false propaganda on social media that coronavirus infected people have been found in various parts of the island. Accordingly, the police urge the public to trust only the official announcements made by the Corona Prevention Task […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Appeal Court announced that the decision on issuing an interim order preventing the execution of the arrest warrants issued by the Fort Magistrate, against former minister Ravi Karunanayake and others over the Central Bank treasury bond scam, will be delivered on July 07. The writ petition filed by Mr Karunanayake and the […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Separate indictments will be filed with the Colombo High Court against former Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka and Ex- Welikada OIC, ASP Sudath Asmadala over Rajagiriya accident case, Deputy Solicitor General (DSG) Dileepa Peiris informed the Colombo Chief Magistrate’s Court. When the case was taken up before Colombo Additional Magistrate Kanchana Neranjana […]

Courtesy Nithiyalk.blogspot.com දිසා අධිකරණයේ පවරා ඇති ගෙවල් කුලී නඩුවක  එම නඩුව පවත්වාගෙන යාමට නොහැකි බවට අධිකරණ සංවිධාන පනතේ 39වන වගන්තිය යටතේ මූලික විරෝධතාවයක් ගෙන ඇත. එකී මූලික විරෝධතාවය විමසීම ලිඛිත දේශන මගින් සිදුකළ අතර පැමිණිල්ලේ නීතිඥවරයා විසින් ලිඛිත දේශන සමග ඉංග්‍රීසි භාෂාවෙන් නඩු තීන්දු සහ ලිපි කිහිපයක් අධිකරණයට ඉදිරිපත් කර ඇත.ලිඛිත දේශන සළකා බලා නඩුව […]

ලංකා ගුරු සේවා සංගමය ජනමාධ්‍ය නිවේදනයයි. පොලිස්පතිතුමා, පොලිස් මූලස්ථානය, කොළඹ. පොලිස්පතිතුමනි, හාරිස්පත්තුව ප‍්‍රාදේශීය සභාවේ සභාපති වරයා විදුහල්පතිවරයෙකුට පහරදීම සම්බන්ධවයි හාරිස්පත්තුව ප‍්‍රාදේශීය සභාවේ සභාපති ආනන්ද ජයවිලාල් විසින් මහනුවර ලූම්බිණි විද්‍යාලයේ විදුහල්පති ජයන්ත බණ්ඩාර මහතාට ජුනි 11 වැනි දින අදාළ ප‍්‍රාදේශීය සභාව තුළ දී පහරදීම හේතුවෙන් රෝහල් ගත කිරීමට සිදුවීම සම්බන්ධව ඔබගේ දැඩි අවධානය යොමුකරන අතර මෙම […]

හර්ෂ කුමාර් සුරියආරච්චි 15.06.2020 ගරු නීතීපති තුමනි, ශ්‍රී ලංකාව තුල, ව්‍යවස්ථානුකුලව සම්මත කර නැති, නීතියක් වී නැති 19 වන ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධන කෙටුම්පත, නීතියක් ලෙස සලකා විධායකයත්, විධායකයේ ආයතනත්, පාර්ලිමේන්තුවත් කටයුතු කරමින් සිටි. විධායකයේ ආයතනයක් වන නීතිපති දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවද ජනතාවගේ නිත්‍යානුකුලව ජීවත්වීමේ පරම අයිතිය නොසලකා නීතියක් වී නැති 19 වන ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධන කෙටුම්පත නිතිය ලෙස සලකා කටයුතු […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Director of the State Intelligence Services of Sri Lanka (SIS) Major General Suresh Sallay has sent a Letter of Demand to Executive Director of the International Truth and Justice Project (ITJP) Ms. Yasmin Sooka and the ITJP for making various allegations against Maj.gen. Sallay, his Lawyer said. The said Letter of […]

Courtesy Hiru News Police Inspector Neomal Rangajiva of the Police Field Force Headquarters said that IGP Pujith Jayasundara insisted on mentioning the name of former Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa in connection with the 2012 shooting incident at Welikada Prison. He was presenting evidence before the Presidential Commission appointed to Investigate Political revenge.

By Senior Lawyer It was  heartening to see the Deputy Survey General’s advice  given in the Daily Mirror. He says  the new law  is  that Originals will be of no value,  but I  strongly recommend the owners to retain the original deeds, extracts and the certified copies of their deeds,”  http://www.dailymirror.lk/breaking_news/District-Bim-Saviya-offices-asked-to-report-issues-to-main-office/108-189216 Deeds – should we […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Attorney General has instructed the Director of the Colombo Crimes Division (CCD) to obtain a warrant and arrest the former OIC of the Welikada Police Station. The Attorney General has instructed the CCD to obtain a warrant from a court to arrest the former Welikada OIC on charges of fabricating false evidence […]

Courtesy Hiru News Archaeological officials say they were threatened with death while marking the boundaries of the historic Devanagala sacred area. After the CIA revealed the illegal acquiring of lands around the sacred area, officials who visited the area made a public statement of these threats for the first time.

Courtesy Hiru News The hearing of the petitions filed before the Supreme Court challenging the date of the general election have been postponed until tomorrow. This was when the hearing was conducted for the 7^th day before the Bench comprising of Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya and Justices Buwaneka Aluvihare, Sisira de Abrew, Priyantha Jayawardena and […]

Courtesy Hiru News Former Parliamentarian Rajitha Senaratne who was ordered to be remanded until the 27th of this month was brought to the Negombo Pallansena Youth Correctional Center. Commissioner General of Prisons Bandula Jayasinghe stated that all suspects who were remanded were taken to the Center for quarantine purposes due to the prevailing covid 19 […]

Courtesy Adaderana Former Minister and the leader of the All Ceylon Makkal Congress (ACMC) Rishad Bathiudeen has filed a Fundamental Rights petition before the Supreme Court, seeking a court order preventing his arrest by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID). Acting IGP C.D. Wickramaratne, the DIG in charge of the CID, the Director of the CID […]

Courtesy Adaderana The two police officers have been interdicted after they had punished several individuals violating the curfew in Colombo have been reinstated to service. Ada Derana on March 12, reported that two police officers had punished four persons who had violated the curfew at Darley Road, Maradana by forcing them to hold their ears […]

Courtesy Adaderana Riyadh Bathiudeen, brother of former Minister Rishad Bathiudeen, has been arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID). The arrest has been made with regard to the probes on the Easter Sunday terror attacks which took place on April 21 last year.