Former Secretary to the President Lalith Weeratunga and former Director-General of the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (TRC) Anusha Pelpita who were acquitted from the case of using state funds to distribute material for ‘Sil Clothing’ said the judgment was victory for the public sector employees.
They were commenting after the verdict on their appeal was delivered by Court of Appeal Justices Kumuduni Wickramasinghe and Devika Abeyratne today (19).
Mr Weeratunga and Mr Pelpita were given a 3-years RI term and fined Rs. 5 million after they were found guilty for misappropriation of Rs 650 million of state funds to distribute ‘Sil cloths’ to people before the Presidential elections in 2015.
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.
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