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  • Drug-peddler remanded
    Panadura Additional Magistrate Kalhari Liyanage remanded a suspect arrested for transporting heroin on Tuesday.The accused had been arrested by Panadura North Police while he was transporting 22...
  • Mother receives suspended sentence
    Kurunegala High Court Judge Menaka Wijesundara sentenced a woman to one year’s imprisonment suspended for 10 years, for confining her children to a mud hut without food recently.She was also fined Rs...
  • Five-judge panel requested for Mahinda’s appeal
    Lawyer on behalf of Ranil Wickremesinghe has filed a motion before the Supreme Court requesting a five-member judge panel for the hearing of the appeal of Mahinda Rajapaksa on holding the Prime...
  • MR, Cabinet Quo Warranto petition fixed for argument on Jan. 16
    The writ petition filed by 122 Parliamentarians who sought an order in the nature of Quo Warranto declaring that Mahinda Rajapaksa and 48 others are not entitled to hold the office of Prime Minister...
  • Contempt of Court action against SLMC fixed for Jan.23
    The Contempt of Court application filed against the members of Sri Lanka Medical Council (SLMC) for their failure to register a student of South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine Limited (...
  • Female driver fined
    Dambulla Magistrate I.M.S.B. Illangasingha fined a female car driver Rs. 2500 who pleaded guilty of violating road rules, recently.The Police informed court that the accused did not have relevant...
  • Interim Order fixed for Friday
    The Special Leave to Appeal application filed by Parliamentarian Mahinda Rajapaksa challenging the Court of Appeal Interim Order that restrained him from functioning as the Prime Minister was...
  • One dead in Sapugaskanda shooting
    One person had succumbed to his injuries on admission to the Kiribathgoda Government Hospital after been shot by two unidentified gunmen at Galwala junction in the Sapugaskanda Police Division last...
  • Petition challenges Ranil’s MP ship
    A writ petition was yesterday filed in the Court of Appeal seeking an order in the nature of a writ of quo warranto declaring that UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe be disqualified to be a Member of...
  • RADA case fixed for further trial on Jan. 11
       The case filed against former MP Tiran Alles and three others was yesterday fixed for further trial on January 11 by the Colombo High Court.The Attorney General had filed...
  • Case against Hirunika fixed for March 12
     The case against Colombo Parliamentarian Hirunika Premachandra for her alleged involvement in the abduction of a youth using a Defender, was yesterday fixed for trial by the Colombo High Court...
  • Shashi Weerawansa case trials fixed for January 1
    Two cases filed against Shashi Weerawansa, wife of National Freedom Front (NFF) Leader Wimal Weerawansa were yesterday refixed for the trial by Colombo Chief Magistrate Lanka Jayarathne. This is over...