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  • CMC member bailed, another remanded
    Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Municipal Councillor Kulatissa Geeganage who was remanded was granted bail by Colombo Chief Magistrate Lanka Jayarathne yesterday.He was...
  • New President’s Counsel take Silk
    Twenty five attorneys took their oaths as President’s Counsel (PC) at a ceremonial sitting of the Supreme Court yesterday.The oaths taking ceremony was held before Chief...
  • Corruption case against Welgama fixed for February 22
    Colombo Chief Magistrate Lanka Jayarathne yesterday, fixed the corruption case filed against former Transport Minister Kumara Welgama for February 22.The Commission to...
  • Ex-Import and Export Controller’s case on April 6
    The Colombo Chief Magistrate Lanka Jayaratne yesterday, fixed the corruption case filed against former Import and Export Controller Mahagamage Gamini for April 6. Mahagamage...
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  • Four surrender in Beruwala heroin case
    Four persons involved in the Beruwala heroin case were remanded till January 25.Colombo Chief Magistrate Lanka Jayarathne ordered the remanding of Sudath Priyadarshana, Jagath Rathnayake, Surendra...
  • Case against Dhammaloka thera fixed for February 7
    The case filed against Ven.Uduwe Dhammaloka Thera for rearing a baby elephant without a valid licence was yesterday fixed for further trial on February 7 by the Colombo High Court.When the case came...
  • 25 new Presidents Counsels sworn in
    25 President’s Counsels was officially sworn in before Chief Justice Nalin Perera and other Supreme Court justices.Appeals Court justices, High Court judges, Magistrates’ Court judges and many other...
  • SAME GROUP INVOLVED IN LASANTHA’S MURDER, NOYAHR’S ABDUCTION - CID
    The CID said the same group of suspects had carried out the murder of senior journalist and Sunday Leader Editor Lasantha Wickrematunge and the abduction and assault of The Nation’s former Deputy...
  • Avant Garde Captain asks for relaxed bail conditions
    Galle High Court Judge Wasantha Jinadasa rejected an application filed by Ukrainian Gennady Gavrylov, the captain of ‘MV Avant Garde’ seeking to relax his bail conditions enabling him to travel to...
  • FR petition against Chinese law firm
    A Fundamental Rights petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking an order to prohibit Baqian Law Group Lanka (Pvt.) Ltd. from engaging in any legal professional work in Sri Lanka.Attorney-at...
  • Lalith, Anusha appeals against conviction fixed for inquiry
    Two appeal petitions filed by former Secretary to the President Lalith Weeratunge and former Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (TRC) Director General Anusha Palpita challenging the judgment of...
  • Case against Prasanna Ranatunga fixed for further trial
    The case filed against Gampaha District Parliamentarian Prasanna Ranatungaand his wife was yesterday fixed for further trial on February 1 by the Colombo High Court.When the case came up before High...
  • Bail for arrested absconding Deputy Mayor
    Akkaraipattu Municipal Council's Deputy Mayor Abdul Gaffor Azmi who was arrested over a court warrant was released on bail.He was arrested regarding a case pertaining to exchanging information with...
  • Teacher remanded over alleged assault
    Kurunegala High Court Judge Menaka Wijesundara remanded an assistant teacher who had allegedly assaulted a Grade 11 student who is said to have smoked cannabis, yesterday.The teacher is a female...
  • Cocaine trafficker sentenced to death
    A man was sentenced to death by the Colombo High Court yesterday when he was found guilty for having and peddling 62.06 grams of cocaine in 2012.The second accused, Nalin Charuka, had been arrested...
  • Two arrested with heroin
    Crime Investigation Unit of the Kalutara South Police took into custody two youths with 70 miligrammes of heroin at the Kithulawala Public Cemetery on Tuesday. They were to be produced before the...