A final year university student is among five suspects taken into custody for spreading false content on COVID-19 on social media, police stated today.
The university student had spread a false story on Facebook claiming that the hospital of the Kotelawala Defence University had been set aside to treat VIP patients who contract COVID-19, Police Spokesman SP Jaliya Senaratne told a media briefing.
The suspect, who was arrested by the CID, was remanded until April 9 after being produced before the Colombo Additional Magistrate.
All Ceylon Makkal Congress MP Ali Sabri Raheem had been arrested by Kalpitiya police after he surrendered to the police today morning.
An interim order prohibiting Deshabandu Tennakoon from carrying out his duties as Inspector General of Police (IGP) has been issued by the Supreme Court.
The Presidential election will be held on September 21, the Commission of Elections has decided.
The former leader of the New Sama Samaja Party (NSSP) and the New Left Front and well-known figure in left-wing politics in Sri Lanka, Dr. Wickramabahu Karunaratne, passed away at the age of 81.
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