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Tuesday, April 10, 2018

A Police Constable Was Arrested And Remanded Over A Bribe Case

A police constable attached to a crimes

division of the Colombo Fort Police who was arrested by the Bribery Comm ission officials over requesting a Rs.10,000 bribe from an employee attached to the medical.supplies division of Health Ministry .

The Suspected Police Constable had been remanded until 23rd of April by the Colombo Additional Magistrate today (10)after being produced before him.

The Police Constable was arrested over the charge that he had requested the Medical Supplies Division employee who is an office assistant ,Rs.10,000 to not to take a legal.action over an illegal activity committed by the employee and to hand over the mobile phone and National Identity card of him taken in to custody it has been revealed.

Burnt Bodies Of Three Members Of Same Family Recovered From Their House In Digana

The burnt bodies of a 37 year old

father and his 13 year old daughter and 05 year old son who had mysteriously died recovered at their house at Rajawella, in Digana,Kandy this morning(10) according to Manikhinna police.

The cause of the death has not yet been revealed and the mother of the deceased children is currently working in abroad it has been revealed.

The deceased father who had a mountain of debt to pay even brought cloths to the children for the forthcoming Sinhala/Hindu New Year according to reports.

Manikhinna Police are conducting an investigations over the incident.

Cabinet Meeting Was Held Without SLFP Ministers

The weekly Cabinet Meeting was held

today(10)without the participation of 13 Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP)members who had voted in favor of the no confidence motion against Prime Minister Ranil Wikramasinghe and lost the confidence of Ministers and MP's attached to Governing United National Party (UNP).

The Cabinet meeting was held under the patronage of President Maithripala Sirisena.

The helpless SLFP Ministers did not participate the Cabinet meeting as they have decided to boycott the meeting until their Party had reached an agreement over the resigning from their posts in the government.

United National Party has strongly condemned the behaviour of above SLFP ministers who had voted in favor of the no confidence motion last week and requested the President to remove from their Monisterial Portfolios.

The group of SLFP ministers too wants to resigned from their posts and they are delaying of doing so due to the opposition of other SLFP MP's it has been announced.

Meanwhile a decision is due to be taken regarding the future of these SLFP Ministers during a central committee meeting of the SLFP scheduled to be held tomorrow(11).

Three Persons Were Killed Due To A Three Wheeler Accident In Gampola

Three persons were killed and one

person injured after the Three Wheeler they were travelling in veering off the road and toppled over to a canal at thundeniya junction in kahawatte-Gampola this evening.

Three of the critically injured belongs to a same family had succumbed to their injuries after admission to Gampola Hospital.

The injured were residents of Gampola,Madirigiriya and Warakapola areas and were of the ages 72,74 and 82 years it has been revealed.

The accident occurred due to the Three Wheeler driver's inability to control the speed of the vehicle according to Police.