Former Minister Wimal Weerawansa’s wife is under probe by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) for providing false information two obtain two different passports, Police spokesman SSP Ajith Rohana said today. He said that she had obtained a normal passport and a diplomatic passport under different names. He said that usually a persons possessing a second passport should mention the number of the previous passport, but in this case there was no mention about the first passport. In the first passport obtained in 2004 she had mentioned the date of birth as 1967-02-01 under the name Shirja Udayanthi Weerawansa under the identity card number 675320233 V while in the second passport (diplomatic) obtained in 2010 she has given her name as Shehasa Udayanthi Ranasinghe with the birthday as 1971-02-03 and identity card number as 715344696 V. The CID has already recorded her statement in she had given the name as Sashi Weerawansa.
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.
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