A Grama Niladhari Officer in the Heerassagala area of Kandy has been arrested by the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption over bribery charges.
This follows a complaint lodged by a woman with the Bribery Commission regarding the incident in which a Grama Niladhari officer requested a bribe of Rs. 25,000 from her in order to settle a land dispute.
The suspect was apprehended by the Bribery Commission officers on June 25 while attempting to obtain the bribe from the concerned woman.
The Grama Niladhari officer has been remanded until June 29.
I still remember the day of August 1947 floods, as it was the last school day at Kingswood College Kandy and the height the water soured. Water rose to the height of the Cross of the Chrurch at Getambe and the water was so high that it engulfed the Getambe Rajaponawarma Temple leaving only a few leaves of the Bo-tree visible.
The Colombo Additional Magistrate has ordered the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) to investigate and submit a report over a complaint about the alleged illegal assets gained by model Piumi Hansamali.
Heritage properties are major tourist attractions world over. Sri Lanka is no exception in this matter. From Colombo, Galle, most of the mountain cities including Nuwara Eliya, Bandarawela, Hatton and Kandy and in the North, hundreds of heritage properties are spread across.
The Colombo High Court today (28) sentenced former parliamentarian Hirunika Premachandra to three years of Rigorous Imprisonment over charges of the involvement of an abduction.
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