The OIC (Officer In Charge ) of the Corruption Investigation Division in the Kandana Police had been arrested by the officers of Bribery or Corruption Commission whilst accepting a bribe of Rs.75,000 from a hotel after threatening to file a case against the hotel over providing an accomadation illegally .
The suspect has demanded a bribe of Rs.100,000 from a hotel on lease and received a sum of Rs.25,000 from that bribe on a previous occassion it has been revealed.
The Prices Of Fuel had revised with effect from midnight last night(30) according to the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CeyPETCO ) .
Accordingly the Price of Octane -92 Petrol had been reduced by Rs.10 to Rs.346 ,Octane-95 Petrol increased bu Rs.3 to Rs.426 ,Auto Diesel Price reduced by Rs 27 to Rs.329 ,and Super Diesel increased by Rs.3 to Rs.434 .The price of Kerosene oil had been reduced by Rs.2 to Rs 247 it has been revealed.
A person was killed and four others had been injured and hospitalized after the Lorry they were travelling in veering off the road and colliding with concrete poles near the Ambalangoda police on Galle-Colombo Main road yesterday (30).
The injured were admitted to the Balapitiya Base Hospital for treatment The incident was occurred when a group of persons on their way to Baddegamae after laying a concrete at a building in Moratuwa area.
Five persons attached to the health sector including the Director of the Medical Supplies Division (MSD) Dr.Kapila Wikramanayake who were arrested by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) over supplying substandard Human Imuunoglobulin vials to the hospitals ,were remanded until 13 th of December by the Maligakanda Magistrate yesterday(29).
The Case filed over the supplyIng of subsrandard Human Immunoglobulin vials was called up yesterday before the Maligakanda Magistrate Lochani Abeywikrama and it has been revealed that around 22,500 vials of Substandard Human Imunoglobulin produced in Sri Lanka were supplied to the hospitals by saying they were imported.
A 19 year old youth has died after a wall of house broken by a Wild Elephant collapsed over him at kibissa area in Sigiriya .
The deceased who was a resident of Kibissa area was in sleep in a room at the time of the incident according to the Police.
