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  • Welikada Prison riot
    Former Prisons Commissioner Emil Ranjan Lamahewa who was arrested in connection to the Welikada Prison riot in 2012, was today ordered to be further remanded till November 21...
  • Inquiry into confession concludes
    Panadura Provincial High Court Judge Damith Thotawatte pronounced in open court on Friday that he had concluded the voire dire inquiry into the confession made by the first...
  • Court orders DNA test
    Panadura Additional Magistrate Kalhari Liyanage ordered the Bandaragama police to conduct a DNA test of the head and the torso of a foreign woman found in the Sevanagala...
  • Case to be taken up on November 15
    Accessibility Rights Activist Dr. Ajith C. S. Perera, Chief Executive of Idiriya, hasmoved the Court to re-activate invocation of a Fundamental Rights Public Interest...
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  • Gamini Senarath pleads not guilty
    Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s Chief of Staff Gamini Sedara Senarath and three others yesterday pleaded not guilty to the charges filed against them by the Attorney General.Accordingly, the...
  • Magistrate orders Police to file amended charge sheet
    Colombo Chief Magistrate Lanka Jayarathne yesterday ordered the Cinnamon Gardens Police to file an amended charge sheet against National Freedom Front Leader (NFF) Wimal Weerawansa and five other...
  • Protest case: trial postponed till Dec 13
    Dambulla Magistrate I.M.S.B. Illangasingha postponed a case against 14 individuals who protested the appointment of a new principal at the Kibissa Junior School in Galewela, recently. The hearing was...
  • CPC shooting: Suspect remanded till Nov. 15
    The Security Officer of former Petroleum Minister Arjuna Ranatunga, who was arrested in connection with a shooting at the Ceylon Petroleum Cooperation (CPC), was remanded till November 15 by Colombo...
  • 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...
  • Court permits Attanayake to travel abroad
    The Colombo High Court yesterday ordered to temporally release former UNP General Secretary Tissa Attanayake’s passport enabling him to travel Japan.Filing a motion in court, Former UNP General...
  • Gotabhaya allowed to travel abroad for one month
    Former Defence Secreary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, whose passport was impounded by Colombo Permanent High Court-at-Bar regarding D.A. Rajapaksa Museum and Memorial case, was yesterday permitted to travel...
  • Former NLDB Chairman, another granted bail in bribe case
    Former National Livestock Development Board (NLDB) Chairman M. K. Muthuvinayagam and Kadiresu Sivanesan who were arrested for allegedly soliciting a bribe from a businessman, were yesterday, granted...
  • MP Karunanayake’s daughter ordered to appear before Court
    Colombo Chief Magistrate Lanka Jayarathne yesterday, ordered MP Ravi Karunanayake's daughter Onella Karunanayake to appear before Court on November 12.The Magistrate made this order when the...
  • Wigneswaran’s special leave to appeal application dismissed
    The special leave to appeal application filed by Northern Province Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran challenging the Court of Appeal’s Interim Order to prevent Wigneswaran’s decision to remove B....
  • Geoffrey Aloysius allowed to go abroad
    Colombo Fort Magistrate Ranga Dissanayake yesterday granted permission for Perpetual Treasuries Limited (PTL) beneficiary owner Arjun Aloysius’s father Geoffrey Aloysius to go abroad between November...
  • Case against Ali Roshan fixed for Nov. 28
    The case filed against Samarappulige Niraj Roshan alias Ali Roshan and six others for allegedly keeping four elephants in their possession without valid permits was yesterday fixed for November 28 by...