Hotel owner in Mawathagama fined

A hotel owner was fined Rs. 40,000 by Peelessa Magistrate Champika Rjapakse for running it without a licence.

Mawathagama MOH Lanka Amarasinghe prosecuted.

A senior police officer told Daily News that 56 PHIs were deployed to inspect the regional hotels and about 267 errant hoteliers were nabbed in the past seven months.