Sri Lanka Police today destroyed more than 900 kilograms of cocaine seized by the Narcotics Bureau during a raid in 2016.
The cocaine was disposed at a gathering in the presence of President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe at the INSEE Ecocycle, a waste management company in the Katunayake Investment Promotion Board, the company confirmed in a media release.
The cocaine stock, reported to be the largest cocaine haul seized from a container aboard a vessel that was on a voyage from Ecuador to Munrah Harbor in India via Colombo.
Pic courtesy INSEE
Public Security Minister Ananda Wijepala told Parliament today that the suspect in the rape of a lady doctor at the Anuradhapura teaching hospital has been identified as an army deserter and he will be apprehended shortly.
Police have arrested the suspect connected to the sexual assault on a female doctor at the Anuradhapura Teaching Hospital today morning in Galnewa.
The Dutch Public Prosecutor suspects two companies of paying bribes in the construction of hospitals in Sri Lanka, according to an investigation by FD, the Dutch financial newspaper.
The Government today tabled in the House the Report of the Commission to Inquiry into the Establishment and Maintenance of Unlawful Places of Detention and Torture Chambers in the Batalanda Housing Scheme.
Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe said today he wholly rejects the Batalanda Commission report and that it was appointed wholly with the intention slinging political mud at him.
Leader of the National People’s Party (NPP) and one time Propaganda Secretary of the JVP Wimal Weerawansa accused the Government of bringing back the “Batalanda Commission” for a media spectacle instead of a genuine concern for those who suffered during the 1988-1990 period.
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