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  • Dr. Shafi files FR petition in SC
    Dr. Shafi Shihabdeen, the controversial doctor attached to the Kurunegala Teaching Hospital yesterday filed a Fundamental Rights petition in the Supreme Court seeking an...
  • Trial-at-Bar to hear elephant trafficking case
    Attorney General Dappula de Livera has requested the Chief Justice to a appoint a three member Trial-at-Bar to hear the first elephant trafficking case in the legal history...
  • CID ordered to probe into former IGP’s alleged conduct
    Colombo Fort Magistrate Ranga Dissanayake yesterday issued an order directing the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) to conduct an investigation regarding former IGP...
  • Central Bank bond scam
    Colombo Chief Magistrate Lanka Jayaratne yesterday postponed the magisterial inquiry into the deletion of phone call data from the voice recording system of the Perpetual...
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  • CA issues warrant to arrest Medical Council member
    The Court of Appeal yesterday issued a warrant to arrest Sri Lanka Medical Council (SLMC) member Dr. N.S.A. Senaratne, for not being present in Court in connection with a Contempt of Court action...
  • 1999 Tambuttegama bomb attack: Suspects re-remanded till July 8
    When the eight suspects including Anuradhapura Mayor H.P. Somadasa held in connection with the bomb attack on the house of UNP Trade Union Federation Secretary and Tambuttegama PHI Ananda Weragoda...
  • Rathgama killings: Seventeen suspects further remanded
    Galle Chief Magistrate Harshana Kekunawela yesterday ordered to further remand 17 suspects who were allegedly involved in the abduction and killing two persons in Rathgama, till July 08.The CID...
  • Case against three LTTE cadres to be taken up today
    A case against three LTTE cadres for alleged detention and murder of 26 Sri Lanka Army and Navy personnel will be taken up before the Vavuniya High Court today.This case is to be heard on a day today...
  • Insaf’s employee remanded
    An employee who worked at the copper factory owned by Insaf Ahmad, one of the Shangri-La suicide bombers, was remanded till July 8 by Colombo Additional Magistrate Priyantha Liyanage.The suspect was...
  • FR filed by IGP re-fixed for support
    The Fundamental Rights (FR) petition filed by Inspector General of Police Pujith Jayasundara seeking an interim order suspending the President’s decision to send him on compulsory leave following the...
  • Sandhya Ekneligoda files FR petition
    Sandhya Ekneligoda, the wife of missing journalist Prageeth Ekneligoda yesterday filed a Fundamental Rights petition in the Supreme Court seeking an order to quash the decision to pardon Bodu Bala...
  • Prof.Sarath Wijesuriya asked to show cause in Contempt of Court case
    The Convener of National Movement for Social Justice (NMSJ) Prof.Sarath Wijesuriya was present before the Court of Appeal to show cause as to why he should not be punished by court for Contempt of...
  • Welgama’s corruption case postponed to July 12
    The Colombo Chief Magistrate Lanka Jayarathne today, fixed the corruption case filed against former Transport Minister Kumara Welgama for July 12.The Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery...
  • Death sentence for drug peddler
    A man who was found guilty for possessing and peddling 4.40g of heroin in 2013, was yesterday sentenced to death by the Colombo High Court.While handing out a judgement against the accused, High...
  • Bribery Commission files indictments against President’s former Chief of Staff, former STC Chairman
    The Director General to the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery and Corruption yesterday filed indictments against President’s former Chief of Staff Kusumdasa Mahanama and former State...
  • Ven.Gnanasara Thera’s pardon challenged
    The Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) yesterday filed a Fundamental Rights petition in the Supreme Court challenging the President’s decision to pardon Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) General Secretary Ven....
  • Lifting of Geoffrey Aloysius’ travel ban revoked
    Colombo Chief Magistrate Lanka Jayarathne yesterday issued an order suspending the court decision to lift the travel ban imposed on the Perpetual Treasuries Private Limited Chairman Geoffrey Aloysius...
  • Ravi, wife ordered to appear in CID
    Colombo Chief Magistrate Lanka Jayarathne yesterday ordered MP Ravi Karunanayake and his wife Melani Karunanayake to appear before the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) on July 7.They were...
  • Sajin’s travel ban lifted till October
    Former UPFA MP Sajin Vass Gunawardena’s travel ban was lifted by the Colombo Chief Magistrate Lanka Jayarathne till October 31 yesterday.This is in the case filed against Vass Gunawardena over money...