Law

The prevailing COVID-19 pandemic is not a special reason to grant bail to suspects in custody, the Court of Appeal held in a recent judgement on a suspect arrested for drug trafficking. The Court of Appeal maintained that the current…

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…

The Police have sought public assistance to apprehend the chief suspect connected to the detection of over 288 kilogrammes of heroin in the seas off Beruwala on August 31. Police have already arrested five suspects in connection with…

The Colombo Additional Magistrate S.Prabhakaran has issued an order to release 13 elephants taken into the custody by the CID to their original owners. The Magistrate made this order pursuant to the submissions made by the Criminal…

MP Rishad Bathiudeen, his wife and father-in-law were ordered to be remanded till September 17 by the Colombo Magistrate Court over the death of a 16-year-old domestic worker. MP's brother-in-law and broker have been released on…

Police have arrested 273 persons and seized 53 vehicles for violating the Quarantine Curfew during the last 24 hours ending at 6.00 am yesterday (06). So far 66,003 persons have been arrested for violating the quarantine laws,…

Police have arrested two site engineers and two drivers of the New Kelani Bridge project for stealing and selling 190 GI pipes to a third party at Rs.1.6 million on Saturday. The Kelaniya Divisional Crime Investigation Unit found…

Prison Headquarters has taken steps to transfer a jailor of the Magazine Prison for providing remanded Parliamentarian Rishard Bathiudeen with a mobile phone. MP Bathiudeen was found using a mobile phone at his cell on September…

Tissamaharama Police yesterday arrested all five suspects involved in the Kuda Sithulpawwa temple artifacts robbery. According to Police, the treasure hunters had carried out the robbery around 4.00 am on Tuesday. A driver of a safari…

Chief Justice has appointed three-member judge bench to hear the case regarding the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks. Justice Damith Thotawatte will chair the three-judge bench and Judges Amal Ranaraja and Navaratne Marasinghe…