The Court case against the order on returning 15 illegally captured elephants out of 38 elephants to their captors will be taken up today (16) at the Colombo Magistrate Courts.
Environmentalists and environmental activists groups said that they have lodged a separate case at the Appeal Court to deactivate the August 19 gazette on Protection, Wellbeing and Regularisation of Registration of Tamed Elephants.
The released elephants were taken to government custody following a crackdown on elephant smuggling.
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Kasun, was born in 28th Sept 1964, the grandson of the legendary author and linguist Munidasa Cumaratunga and son of SSP Bindu Kumaratunga and Winifred
The Inland Revenue Department (IRD) backed by the Excise and Customs Department today launched a fresh drive to collect taxes including some Rs.780 billion listed as ‘collectable defaults’.
The Supreme Court today unanimously dismissed a Fundamental Rights petition filed by five convicts in the 1996 Krishanthi Kumaraswamy abduction, rape, and murder case.
A SriLankan airlines flight has been grounded in an airport in Indonesia due to a technical defect leaving 93 passengers stranded, an official said.
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