Wimal Weerawansa, the leader of the National Freedom Front accused of using a passport that had expired has been acquitted of the charges by the Negombo Magistrate’s court today.
Weerawansa’s lawyers told courts that he had accidently brought an old passport to the Airport while trying to travel overseas in 2015.
They said he had lost the particular passport and found it only later after he had taken a new passport. He had accidentally brought the old passport to the airport.
The Department of National Zoological Gardens is readying enclosures to quarantine two large tortoises that were found stranded 15 kilometers westwards off Pitipana Negombo, today.
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The Customs Department said it will be publish the names of institutions and individuals who violate customs laws and commit tax fraud by uploading the information on its official website www.customs.gov.lk.
A board of inquiry has been appointed to investigate the death of a student at the University of Sabaragamuwa, reportedly linked to a ragging incident.
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