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Friday, October 19, 2018

There Are Sufficient Facts To Arrest Former Chief Of Defense Staff Over Abducting 11 Youth -CID Has Informed The Court

Criminal Investigations Department

(CID)has yesterday (19)informed the Colombo Fort Magistrate Lanka Jayaratne that there are sufficient facts to arrest former Chief Of Defense Staff Ravindra wjeguna wardana regarding the abduction and dissaperance of 11 youth in Colombo .

The letters to recall the former Chief of Defense Staff to the CID Headquarters in Colombo Within next week are under preparation CID has stated .

This was revealed when the Case filed against the abduction of 11 youth had taken up for hearing yesterday.

Bone Parts Recovered From.A Mass Grave In Mannar To Be Sent To USA For A Carbon Test

Bone parts of around 185 persons

recovered from the Mass Grave in Mannar during the last 90 day period are scheduled to be sent to a Laboratory in Florida,USA shortly for a Carbon test to identify the time period which the bone parts belongs to it has been reported.

Mannar Magistrate Court has given approval to send the bone parts to a Laboratory in USA for a Carbon test .

The recovered Bone parts are being stored at the Mannar court complex under the supervision of Consultant Judicial Medical Officer S.Rajapakshe .

The excavations had begun at the Mass Grave located at old SATHOSA building site in Mannar after bone parts recovered from a Soil removed from the site last March.

A Unit Manager Of MahawelI Authority Has Been Arrested Whilest Accepting A Bribe

The unit Manager attached to the

Muthuwella Unit of the Sri Lanka MahawelI Authority in Welikanda has been arrested by the Bribery Commission officers recently over accepting Rs.20,000 as a bribe from a person inside his office.

The suspect was arrested whilest accepting the bribe from a person in Welikanda area to give recommendation for preparing a licence to the land owned by him belongs to MahawelI Authority it has been reported.

The suspected Manager is due to be produced before the court.