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Colombo Crimes Division has arrested a 26-year-old suspect from Uppuveli, Trincomalee over the incident where a grenade was found yesterday in a private hospital in Narahenpita area, said the Police Media Spokesperson.

Panadura Acting Magistrate Lahiru De Silva suspended the passport of S.Madushanka, the Chief Cashier of the Southern Expressway’s Gelanigama Exit over the theft of Rs 1.4 million from the cash safe. The Police informed the Court…

Deputy Solicitor General (DSG) Dileepa Piries appearing on behalf of the Attorney General's Department told the Magistrate that the deletion of data from the National Medicines Regulatory Authority (NMRA) database could be part of a…

A special three-judge Bench of the Colombo High Court yesterday decided to hear the case filed against 25 persons alleged to have been involved in the Easter Sunday bombings, on October 4, 2021. The Attorney General had filed…

Parliamentarian Rishad Bathiudeen, his wife and the father-in-law were further remanded until September 17 by Colombo Additional Magistrate Rajindra Jayasuriya. The Magistrate made this order when the case regarding the death of…

  The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the private computer firm which operated the data base of National Medicines Regulatory Authority (NMRA), has been granted bail by the Colombo Magistrate’s Court today He was arrested…

Drug trafficker Kaludura Chaminda Thabrew alias Bob Marley who was wanted over smuggling drugs into the country, was arrested in Elpitiya by the Police Narcotics Bureau yesterday. The suspect is a 41-year old and was identified as the…

The Police Special Task Force (STF) arrested a suspect in possession of nearly two kilos of the stimulant drug ‘crystal methamphetamine’ known as ‘ICE’ worth over Rs.20 million in a raid carried out at Wanawasala Road, Wattala in the…

Two suspects were arrested by the Police Special Task Force (STF) in a raid in the Deans Road area in the Maradana Police Division on Monday with 51 kilos of Kerala cannabis. The two suspects are a 34-year-old resident of Sumedha…

Customs officials at the Bandaranaike International Airport, Katunayake seized 4,200 Oximetres and arrested a suspect at the air cargo terminal as the stock had been smuggled in using forged documents. The stock had been brought in…