Sri Lanka has intensified...
Colombo Fort Chief Magistrate Ranga Dissanayake yesterday (2), ordered the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to arrest Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Admiral Ravindra Wijegunaratne and to produce him in Court.
Colombo Additional Magistrate Priyantha Liyanage yesterday (30) postponed to 26 February next year the case against former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Chairman of the Avant Garde Maritime Services Private Limited Nissanka Senadhipathi and six others, who are accused of having allegedly cist a loss of Rs 11.4 billion to the State by allowing Avant Garde Maritime Services to operate a floating armoury off the Southern seas.
The United States (US) yesterday (29) issued a security alert for its citizens, who are in Sri Lanka, after taking into consideration the current political developments in the country.
One person was killed and two others injured as the security detail, belonging to Petroleum Minister Arjuna Ranatunga, opened fire on a group of protesters inside the complex of the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) at Dematagoda yesterday afternoon.
On the instruction of IGP Pujith Jayasundera, leave of all Police personnel have been canceled with immediate effect, until further notice, police spokesman said.
The Sri Lanka Army yesterday announced that the Contingent Commander of the Sri Lankan Combat Convoy Company in Mali Lieutenant Colonel Kalana Amunupura will be recalled on a request made by the United Nations.
The Second-in-Command of an Army camp in Ampara and two other soldiers were arrested yesterday (25), for allegedly supplying nearly 3,000 rounds of live ammunition to underworld operatives, Police said.
Criminal Investigations Department officials yesterday informed Fort Magistrate Lanka Jayaratne that the voice recordings of telephone conversations between former Terrorism Investigation Department (TID) DIG Nalaka Silva and Anti Corruption Movement Operations Director Namal Kumara matched.
The country’s new Chief Justice Nalin Perera has said he is “painfully aware that we live in a society that is increasingly losing confidence in the ability to uphold justice.”
A group of inmates of the Agunukolapelessa Prison launched a protest on top of a tower in the prison, this morning urging to withdraw the Police Special Task Force (STF) from the prison.
