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Sri Lanka telecommunications bill some clauses ruled unconstitutional by SC: Speaker

Remedies proposed by Supreme Court

June 18, 2024 1 min read

Sri Lanka courts to sell vehicles, machinery seized for suspected involvement in crimes

Courts are compelled to keep the seized vehicles until legal cases are over under the current law

June 13, 2024 2 min read

Sri Lanka’s anti-graft body challenges Public Financial Management Bill in Supreme Court

Bill's procurement provisions violate sovereignty of people right to equal protection of the law: TISL

June 7, 2024 2 min read

Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court officials learn high tech system in India’s apex court

India has offered a raft of training to Sri Lankan civil servants, scholarship for students to learn in India

May 15, 2024 2 min read
Sri Lanka to spend Rs4.3bn on new Kandy prison amid severe overcrowding

"300% over-capacity and we are looking at the possibility of housing some prisoners in designated government buildings"

Sri Lanka allocates Rs. 150mn to e-Court project

Sri Lanka has suffered long delays in legal cases due to lack of digitization

Narcotics Bureau officers accused of trafficking re-remanded

The Colombo Magistrate's Court has ordered the 13 officers attached to the Police Narcotic Bureau accused of drug traffi...

August 5, 2020 1 min read

SLPP contestant Jayasekara’s candidature is “valid” despite death sentence - Deshapriya

Convicted murderer Premalal Jayasekara can contest tomorrow’s election but if he is elected the Elections Commission w...

August 4, 2020 2 min read

Intelligence officers helped trap wanted Negombo Prison Chief Sampayo - Police

Sri Lanka’s State Intelligence Service is assisting police battle organized crime and drug cartels, a Senior Police of...

August 3, 2020 2 min read
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Former top sleuth Shani Abeysekara allegedly planted evidence – Police spokesman

Former CID Director SSP Shani Abeysekara was arrested this morning by the Colombo Crime Division (CCD) for allegedly cre...

Imesh Ranasinghe
July 31, 2020 3 min read

Leading SLPP candidate in Ratnapura sentenced to death for murdering UNP supporter

The Ratnapura High Court has sentenced a Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna Candidate Premalal Jayasekara to death for the murd...

July 31, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lankan man accused of killing wife in Canada gets his trial dismissed due to court delays

A Sri Lankan man accused of murdering his 21-year old wife in 2012 in Montreal, Canada, has had his murder trial dismiss...

July 18, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka COVID19: Welikada Prison hospital inmates test negative as officials scramble to trace inf...

Tests for COVID 19 on 170 inmates of the Welikada Prison hospital have returned negative, officials said today. The test...

July 7, 2020 2 min read

Magistrate orders police probe into how in-camera evidence by children was reported by media

The Fort Magistrate has ordered an investigation as to how evidence given to him in-camera by two children last week mad...

July 1, 2020 2 min read

Ahimsa’s objections on CID Director’s appointment; Constitutional Council wants NPC’s observat...

The Constitutional Council is calling for the National Police Commission’s (NPC) observations on a letter sent to the ...

June 25, 2020 3 min read

Magistrate orders probe as to whether journalist's computer had been tampered with

Colombo’s Chief Magistrate Lanka Jayaratne yesterday June 16 ordered the Government Analyst to examine a laptop belong...

June 17, 2020 2 min read
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Arrest warrants issued against directors of ETI Finance Ltd.

A Colombo Magistrate has issued warrants for the arrest of the Directors of Edirisinghe Trust Investments Finance Ltd., ...

June 16, 2020 2 min read

Supreme Court dismisses FR petitions challenging the refusal to recall Parliament

The Supreme Court has refused leave to proceed for all 8 Fundamental Rights petitions that challenged the June 20 poll d...

June 2, 2020 1 min read

Elections Commission tells Supreme Court it cannot hold polls on June 20

The bombshell dropped in the ornate and vast Ceremonial Court of Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court today by the National Elect...

May 20, 2020 3 min read

Three children allege "CID Officers" tried to coerce them to implicate madrassah in arms training

Three minors, all students of the Al-Zuhairiya Arabic School in Karaitivu have filed Fundamental Rights petitions before...

May 13, 2020 2 min read

Senadhipathy arrested and remanded

The Chairman of Avant Guard Nissanka Senadhipathy was remanded until November 8 today by the Special trial-at-Bar after ...

October 17, 2019 1 min read

Dismissal of Petition no bar on Police probe into Gotabaya's citizenship

The dismissal of the Petition challenging the citizenship status of Presidential Candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa does not b...

October 15, 2019 2 min read

No trial for Gota during the campaign

This allows Gotabaya to campaign for the election without the distraction of the trial, and in case he wins and becomes ...

October 11, 2019 1 min read
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