Posted on 05 February 2012.
The parents of a schoolgirl at Moratuwa met the Superintendent of Police, Mount Lavinia Division, Ravindra Karawita who gave a patient hearing to their complaint last week.
The parents were in a state of shock and agitation and began narrating the threat made to them by an underworld man.
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Posted on 05 February 2012.
It is their kindergarten with colourful toys, sixteen ‘children’ in the class are gradually improving their lost skills under the careful guidance of teachers cum therapists. Private Shanaka Wijewickrama knows nothing except his favourite puzzle board – Sri Lanka with 24 districts. He takes the pieces out and fits them one by one to make a complete picture. The 21-year-old repeats this throughout the day, apart from identifying letters in the Sinhala alphabet.
Memories have long left him and he does not know what has happened to him. He can recall very little information about himself.
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Posted on 04 February 2012.
The Police Narcotics Bureau (PNB) at the Bandaranaike International Airport arrested a Thai woman aged 22 with over 1.475 kgs of cocaine in her possession yesterday.
She was arrested following a tip-off.
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Posted on 04 February 2012.
The bodies of a woman and her daughter were found in Kotagedara, Ratnapura, the Police said.
The body of the woman aged 52 was found in a house in Ratnapura while the body of her daughter aged 19 was found several kilometers away from the house, the Police said.
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Posted on 02 February 2012.
A young Malaysian couple who had defrauded a large number of job seekers for several hundred thousand rupees promising jobs at a biscuit factory in Malaysia was arrested by the Matale Division Police Unresolved Crimes Division along with their Sri Lankan accomplice on Tuesday.
Police also seized a sum of Rs 128,000 and four passports from their possession. Police said investigations revealed that the money had been obtained from three persons in Polonnaruwa and a resident in Rattota. The couple had arrived here on January 28 on a visa issued for 30 days. The Sri Lankan accomplice is a resident of Aluvihare who had been employed abroad earlier.
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Posted on 01 February 2012.
Sixteen suspects out of twenty who are alleged to have been involved in the shooting incident relating to Presidential Trade Union Advisor and former Colombo District Parliamentarian Baratha Lakshman Premachandra were yesterday further remanded till February 14, by Colombo Additional Magistrate Prasanna Alwis. Duminda Silva MP and his bodyguard were not present in court yesterday.
Earlier the court granted bail for two other suspects who are alleged to have been involved in the shooting incident. On the last hearing date, nine prosecution witnesses identified ten suspects alleged to have been involved in the killing of former MP, at an identification parade held by the magistrate.
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Posted on 30 January 2012.
Unroadworthy vehicles will not be allowed to travel along the Southern Expressway, Colombo City Traffic Director Senior SP Chula de Silva said. Vehicles without side mirrors and wasted tires and damaged vehicles will not be allowed on the Expressway, SSP de Silva said.
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Posted on 30 January 2012.
Fifteen road accidents had claimed 17 persons from Saturday 6am to yesterday 6am, Police Media Spokesman SP Ajith Rohana said. This is the largest number of fatal accidents in one day in Sri Lankan history, he added.
The accidents were in Ruwanwella, Ragama, Wattala, Meerigama, Kochchikade, Eppawala, Kuliyapitiya, Kurunegala, Akuressa, Matara, Ahungalla, Mahiyangana and Payagala.
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