The Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Court of Ramanathapuram in India has given approval for the release of five Sri Lankan fishing boats, the Hindu reported. They were impounded by the Marine Police after the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) had apprehended 26 Lankan fishermen with their boats in May and September last year. When the Inspectors of Police of Thermal Nagar and Tharuvaikulam Marine Police in Tuticorin appealed to the court seeking release of the boats, CJM T. Jayarajan said the case was no longer pending before the court and the properties (boats) might be released as per government letter. As the government had withdrawn the case, the boats were not remanded and the accused (Lankan fishermen) had already been released, the CJM said. However, the “properties may be released as per government letter and a (compliance) report may be furnished to this court,” the CJM said.
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.
Leave Comments