The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) informed Court today (Dec 12) that the investigations regarding Dr. Mohamed Shafi are being conducted by a new investigative team.
Accordingly, the Kurunegala Magistrate’s court permitted the CID to record evidence again if in the event there were discrepancies in the evidence already recorded.
The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) made this statement when the case filed against Dr Shafi of the Kurunegala Teaching Hospital was taken up for hearing.
Dr. Mohamed Shafi was accused of improper accumulation of funds, allegedly aiding and abetting terrorism and allegedly performing sterilization surgical operations.
The 42-year-old doctor was arrested by the police on May 24 on charges of amassing an inexplicable wealth and handed over to the CID, which detained the doctor under the Prevention of Terrorism laws. Thereafter he was released on bail on July 25, 2019 .
The number of Buddhist monks who were killed following the accident at the Na Uyana Theravada Buddhist Monastery (Na Uyana Aranya Senansenaya) in Pansiyagama, Melsiripura, Kurunegala currently stands at nine , with four injured, Minister of Buddhasasana, Religious and Cultural Affairs Prof. Hiniduma Sunil Senevi told Parliament this morning. He revealed that two of the injured Buddhist monks are being treated at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU
Several shops were damaged in a major fire that broke out in a shop on the third floor of a building at First Cross Street in Pettah, Colombo, today evening.
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, addressing the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly, said that both inequality and poverty ought to be regarded as a worldwide catastrophe that requires urgent attention.
The opposition has renewed its demand for a long delayed forensic audit into the controversial e-visa deal, following the sentencing of former Controller General of Immigration, Harsha Ilukpitiya, for contempt of court.
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