Police Officers attached to the Organized Crimes Prevention Division had arrested a person with 19 Grammes and 450 Mili Grammes of Heroin in his possession at Katubedda in Moratuwa yesterday(26).
The 39 year old suspect who is a resident of Moratuwa is due to be produced before the Moratuwa Magistrate Court.
Bribery Commission Officials have today(27) arrested the Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) in Wennappuwa over accepting a Rs.30,000 as a bribe from a female owner of a Body Massage Center(SPA) located in Wennapuwa area under the Ayurveda Label.
The suspected ASP had demanded from the female owner of the SPA a sum of Rs.40,000 to support the SPA to function without any problem and later reduced that sum to Rs.30,000 .He was caught by the Bribery Commission officials while accepting it at Divulapitya road in Negambo .
After further investigations on the incident,The suspected ASP is due to be produced before the Negambo Magistrate Court according to the Bribery Commission.
The body of a teacher who was disappeared after a Motor Car which he was traveling in toppled over to the Vienna Canal at Mapakadawewa area on Badulle-Mahiyanganaya road yesterday(26) had recovered this morning(27) according to the Police.
The body of the 29 year old deceased teacher had recovered from 08 kilo meters away from the place where the accident occurred .The deceased was a teacher attached to Thissapura School.
Three others who were in the same vehicle which toppled over to the Vienna canal were rescued by the residents of the area.
"Prime Minister Ranil Wikramasinghe had sworn in as the Minister of Law and Order for a two week period and after that Period the Ministerial Portfolio will be handed over to the Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka as earlier planned "the Minister of Health ,Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine Dr.Rajitha Senaratne has stated during a discussion held in the Ministry of Health yesterday(26). "The higher officers of the Police Department are against appointing of Field Marshal Fonseka for the Law and Order Ministerial Post but the lower grade officers in the Department likes if he is being appointed .This post should be hand over to a person who can take direct decisions not to the ones playing doable games.Those who are talking on war heroes should accept the fact that Field Marshal Fonseka is also a war hero.Nowadays those who were involved in robberies and murders too labeled as war heroes. Ministerial Post are not permanent and those who put their legs on two parties should be removed .Cabinet Ministers should not be appointed according to Ministers wishes .President and Prime Minister should have take decisions after consulting each other not according to the decisions taken by the Sri Lanka Freedom Party and United National Party"Minister has stressed.