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  • ‘Navy Sampath’ taken to remand. Picture by Saliya Rupasinghe
    ‘Navy Sampath’ remanded
    Chandana Prasad Hettiarachchi alias ‘Navy Sampath’ arrested in connection with the abduction, torture, extortion and murder of 11 persons in 2008 and 2009, was yesterday...
  • SC vacates Interim Order restraining Adhikaram
    The Supreme Court last Friday (10) vacated an interim order issued by the Colombo Civil Appellate High Court restraining the Basnayake Nilame of Kataragama Devalaya from...
  • Twelve years’ RI for kidnap, rape
    Kurunegala Civil Appeal High Court Judge Sumudu Premachandra yesterday imposed a 12-year term of rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs. 15,000 on a 57-year-old man who...
  • The stock of money, jewellery and electronic equipment seized by police. Picture by Anuradha Priyadarshana, Karandeniya Group Corr.
    Suspect nabbed in foreign employment scam
    A suspect who had swindled a sum of Rs.45 million from persons across the country, while promising them employment in Canada, was arrested by Ahungalla Police recently.Police...
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  • Hearing of petition for writ of Mandamus postponed
    Galle High Court Judge Manjula Thilakarathna postponed the hearing of a petition for a writ of Mandamus pleading the suspension of the alleged decision of the Southern Province Governor’s Secretary,...
  • Death sentence for 2005 murder of ex-soldier
    The Galle High Court Judge on Thursday sentenced to death a person found guilty of committing murder on February 22, 2005, at Kodagoda in the Ahangama Police division.The convict, Rathnayake...
  • Traders fined at pola
    Three suspects who pleaded guilty to selling outdated packets of papadam and noodles to consumers were fined Rs.26,000 by Kurunegala Additional Magistrate Namal Perera. They were residents of the...
  • Mahanama, Dissanayake further remanded
    The President’s former Chief of Staff I. H. K. Mahanama and former State Timber Corporation (STC) Chairman P. Dissanayake who were in remand custody on bribery charges, were further remanded till...
  • Case fixed for October 9
    The case filed against former Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa and former Divi Neguma Department Director-General Kithsiri Ranawaka for allegedly misappropriating Rs.36.5 million of...
  • Former Dpy. Minister, five others indicted
    The Colombo High Court indicted former Deputy Minister Sarath Kumara Gunaratne and five others for misappropriating Rs.11.2 million of public funds allocated for the Negombo Lagoon Development...
  • Appeal filed by seven accused fixed for support
    The appeal petition filed by the seven accused who were sentenced to death for the murder and gang rape of Sivaloganathan Vidya was yesterday fixed for support by the Supreme Court.The seven accused...
  • CONTEMPT OF COURT ESTABLISHED
    The Court of Appeal yesterday found Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) General Secretary Ven. Galagoda Atte Gnanasara Thera guilty on all four charges and sentenced to 19-year-rigorous imprisonment, to be served...
  • President’s former Chief of Staff, ex STC Chairman further remanded
    The President’s former Chief of Staff, I. H. K. Mahanama, and former State Timber Corporation (STC) Chairman P. Dissanayake, who were in remand custody on bribery charges, were further remanded until...
  • Appeals to be taken up for support tomorrow
    The appeal petitions filed by the seven convicted and sentenced to death for the murder and gang rape of Sivaloganathan Vidya are to be taken up for support before the Supreme Court tomorrow (9).The...
  • Bribery case: Mahagamage Gamini re-remanded till Aug. 21
    Former Import and Export Controller Mahagamage Gamini, who was in remand for allegedly demanding a bribe of Rs. 200,000 from a businessman, was re-remanded till August 21 by Colombo Chief Magistrate...
  • Student gets bail in assault case
    Tangalle Chief Magistrate LilanTilantha released a student who was convicted of having beaten another student at the Tangalle bus stand, on bail of Rs. 2 lakhs.The student released on bail is a...