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The largest haul of heroin weighing 55 kilograms concealed inside fake potatoes and imported from Pakistan was seized at the Colombo Port yesterday by the Police Narcotics Bureau (PNB). Police Chief Mahinda Continue Reading

Suspected pro-Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) elements blasted railway tracks at Perani railway station in Villupuram district in Tamil Nadu early this morning. Continue Reading

Following investigations by the Colombo Crimes Intelligence Unit, 7 men have been arrested in Maradana over charges of multiple rape of two young boys aged 11 and 14.
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Film Producer and Director Chandran Ratnam was released without any charges against him by the Gangodawila Magistrate today.

Ratnam was arrested by the police last week for allegedly possessing explosive materials in his former residence in Nugegoda.

According to police, Ratnam had failed to produce the special license he obtained from the Defence Ministry to produce the film ‘Road to Elephant Pass’. Continue Reading

Two suspects, alleged to be LTTE cadres, were arrested by the Special Task Force (STF) and the police in Kalmunai and Kalawanchikudi for engaging in anti-state activities and promoting the now defunct LTTE.

Police Media Spokesman SP Preshantha Jayakody said that two mobile phones containing a video clip of the LTTE were in the possession of the suspects at the time of the arrest.
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The Children’s Court in Colombo today ordered the Police Women and Child’s bureau to seek the assistance of mobile phone companies on how porn sites accessed via mobile phones can be restricted or blocked.

Sources at the Women and Child’s bureau told Daily Mirror online that the order was based on a complaint lodged by a parent that his child was able to access porn sites via the mobile phone including sites banned by the government on the internet in Sri Lanka. Continue Reading

The Puttalam High Court sentenced a man to death by hanging this evening for the murder of his wife. In the absence of the death sentence the man will serve life in jail.

High Court Judge Arfa Thasim sentenced Segu Mohideen to death following the hearing this evening, for murdering his wife in 2007 by stabbing her with a knife. Continue Reading

Two school girls, both sisters, were arrested by the Piliyandala police for pick-pocketing from passengers on board public buses. The police recovered over 30 wallets from the two girls.

The two sisters, students of grade nine and twelve of a school in the area, pick-pocketed on board crowded buses. The suspects while traveling in buses used to target standing passengers by offering to hold onto their belongings and subsequently lifted their wallets.
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The Colombo Fort Magistrate has ordered the CID to publish a written proclamation on Dhanuna Tillekaratne, the son-in-law of General Sarath Fonseka, which will be put up in the Court premises, certain public places and near his residence and if he fails to abide by the proclamation his properties will be liable to be confiscated.

State Counsel, appearing on behalf of the AG’s department also said that according to provisions, if Dhanuna does not appear in court within the next 30 days, any civil person will be able to arrest him. Continue Reading