Jaffna Magistrate Court ordered nine persons including the driver of a vehicle engaged in transporting essential goods from Colombo- Jaffna after police found that he had helped others to travel to Jaffna without curfew pass or medical certificates.
Initiating legal action, Jaffna police produced all nine individuals before Magistrate Courts yesterday. Jaffna Magistrate Anthony Saamy Peter Paul ordered them to undergo two week long mandatory quarantine in Vidaththalpalai Army camp and instruct police to self isolate their respective families.
Individuals who came from Colombo via traveling in vehicles and walking for miles told the police that they were working in Colombo as labourers and the current islandwide curfew forced them to take up their own passage to join with their families.
Popular grade five tuition teacher, Hayeshika Fernando wanted over assaulting a 21 year old youth was granted bail today after she surrendered to courts.
A British national had been arrested over attempting to smuggle in the largest haul of kush( drugs) from Thailand, customs said.
The Government of Sri Lanka maintains that the allegation of genocide during the final phase of the conflict in Sri Lanka is unsubstantiated by any credible authority, either nationally or internationally, and is based on misleading information. Sri Lanka firmly rejects this false narrative and believes it has been propagated primarily for electoral gains within Canada.
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