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Duminda’s security guards seek bail |
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Wednesday, 15 February 2012 08:28 |
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Parliamentarian Duminda Silva’s six private security personnel and a telephone operator of who are in remand over the killing of former presidential advisor Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra today filed a bail application in Court.
Colombo High Court Judge Pathman Surasena fixed the inquiry for April 19.
Counsel Anil Silva with Dhanaraj Samarakoon appeared for the six private security personnel - Prasad Hettiarachchi, Malaka Sameera, Saman Kumara, Vidanagamage Amila, Jagath Kumara and Suranga Premalal and telephone operator Tharindu Asanga.
Mr. Silva said the suspects were with the parliamentarian at the time of the shooting that took place in Walpola in Mulleriyawa on the day of the elections to the Kolonnawa Municipal Council and the Kotikawatte-Mulleriyawa Pradeshiya Sabha.
The counsel said the suspects had been taken in for questioning over the incident and then remanded.
He requested that they be granted bail because the investigations were over and the suspects had been in remand for a long time.
The judge directed the High Court Registrar to give notice to the Attorney General and the CID unit 3 OIC to appear in court on April 19. (Dailymirror) |
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US case against Shavendra dismissed |
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Friday, 10 February 2012 18:36 |
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The case filed in a US court against Sri Lanka’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Major General Shavendra Silva, by former LTTE Eastern Leader Ramesh’s widow Vathsala Devi, was dismissed on Wednesday as Major General Silva enjoyed diplomatic immunity.
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Samurdhi will be paid in March says Govt. |
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Friday, 10 February 2012 18:34 |
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The government admitted yesterday that Samurdhi recipients had not been paid their allowance this year and gave an assurance that they would pay the Samurdhi allowance for the first quarter of the year in March.
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SL must help toward peaceful settlement in the Maldives: Ranil |
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Friday, 10 February 2012 18:33 |
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Sri Lanka must do its best for the Maldives to ensure a peaceful settlement to its crisis, Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe told Parliament yesterday.
“We must do our best to ensure normalcy in the Maldives,” he said making a statement in the House yesterday. He reminded that the SAARC and Commonwealth countries and others that are all there to help defuse the crisis.
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President calls for expanding Pak-Sri Lanka bilateral trade |
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Friday, 10 February 2012 18:32 |
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resident Asif Ali Zardari Friday called for stepping up efforts to fully realize the potential of Free Trade Agreement with Sri Lanka and building a mutually beneficial economic and trade partnership to jack up the bilateral trade from current $375 million to $2 billion target in the next three years.
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