Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has ruled out an early pardon for his election rival Sarath Fonseka and dismissed the former army chief as a “fool” who was unprepared for politics.
The Colombo Additional Magistrate Gihan Ranawaka has called for a full report on the arbitrarily arrest of Major Sunil de Silva who had been granted anticipatory bail. The Magistrate blamed the Terrorist Investigation Division (TID) for not adhering to the court order and sternly ordered the OIC of the Division to be summoned to court next week. The Magistrate made this order considering an application made by a group of lawyers representing Maj. Sunil de Silva....
The President has called two military tribunals against the former Commander of the SL Army Gen. Sarath Fonseka who gave the leadership to the war against the LTTE and wiped out tiger terrorism after ending the 30 year old damnable war....
The President had told a foreign diplomat that General Sarath Fonseka was not arrested due to a personal grudge, but was done due to a legal requirement following advice received from the Attorney General (AG), a sources from the diplomatic community said....
The Colombo Fort Magistrate today remanded the Chief Security Officer (CSO) of the Cinnamon Lakeside Hotel till March 31 for allegedly deleting the data from the Cinnamon Lakeside Security Camera sets of January 26 and 27....
Two majors and a lieutenant in Sri Lanka Army supporting Gen. Sarath Fonseka’s election campaign, arrested at the office at Royal Avenue in Colombo 7 and detained alleging they had participated in a conspiracy against the state were ordered to be released by Colombo Chief Magistrate Champa Janaki Rajaratne yesterday (16th).
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The military tribunal against Gen. Sarath Fonseka that met today decided to put off the sessions indefinitely. The same Army officers who participated as judges participated as judges today as well. When counsels representing Gen. Fonseka raised objections the judges suddenly decided to put off the hearing stating they would have to consider whether the tribunal could be continued....
The Colombo Fort Magistrate has re-issued a warrant for the arrest of Dhanuna Thilakaranthna, the son in law of General Sarath Fonseka for absconding court. ...
Even today, the names of Pottu Amman and two others linked with him have been posted under red notice in the ‘wanted list’ of Interpol website. If Pottu Amman is dead, there is no reason for his name being published in the ‘wanted list’ in the Interpol website. His name has been included in the Interpol ‘red notice’ list last December.
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Sri Lanka Police has become a clique of underworld which fulfills the needs of a few individuals states Intellectuals for Human Rights (IHR) issuing a press release vehemently condemning the brutal killing of a civilian in the presence of his children by a gang in police uniform at Trincomalee. Reggy Bandula, a businessman at Mahamayapura, Trincomalee was shot dead by the Trincomalee police....
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