The Ministry of Higher Education has invited students or the public to submit complaints related to ragging to the Police hotline and WhatsApp numbers announced.
Accordingly complaints could be lodged to the hotline 1997 or messages could be submitted on WhatsApp to 076-5453454. Complaints could be also lodged to the University Grants Commission 0112 123700.
State Minister Suren Ragavan told a news conference today that currently as many as 57 students are serving a suspension of classes over ragging incidents. They relate to 36 complaints.
Police Spokesman SSP Nihal Thalduwa said that after receiving complaints they would decide that the case would be investigated by the CID or entrusted to the local police for investigation.
Public Security Minister Ananda Wijepala told Parliament today that the suspect in the rape of a lady doctor at the Anuradhapura teaching hospital has been identified as an army deserter and he will be apprehended shortly.
Police have arrested the suspect connected to the sexual assault on a female doctor at the Anuradhapura Teaching Hospital today morning in Galnewa.
The Dutch Public Prosecutor suspects two companies of paying bribes in the construction of hospitals in Sri Lanka, according to an investigation by FD, the Dutch financial newspaper.
The Government today tabled in the House the Report of the Commission to Inquiry into the Establishment and Maintenance of Unlawful Places of Detention and Torture Chambers in the Batalanda Housing Scheme.
Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe said today he wholly rejects the Batalanda Commission report and that it was appointed wholly with the intention slinging political mud at him.
Leader of the National People’s Party (NPP) and one time Propaganda Secretary of the JVP Wimal Weerawansa accused the Government of bringing back the “Batalanda Commission” for a media spectacle instead of a genuine concern for those who suffered during the 1988-1990 period.
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