Day: 10 August 2015

New Twist In Wasim Thajudeen Media Blitz By Darshanie Ratnawalli – Mahinda.info releases the original police report showing no time for torture Mahinda Rajapaksa Information Center, Mahinda.info yesterday published a scanned copy of the original report filed by Inspector Damian Perera, OIC, Police Station Narahenpita on 2012 May 21, four days after the incidence which produced the body identified as Wasim Thajudeen’s in the burnt car registered in his name…………………  read more Finger Pointed At Three PSD Personnel According to CID sources, there have been many lapses when conducting the…

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CID investigate Secret discussion on Thajudeen at PSD mess before ‘accident’ Body to be exhumed in search of vital evidence Yasara breaks silence over Thajudeen controversy Thajudeen’s family says it battled in silence for two years Rasika Jayakody The modern view of criminal justice, broadly, is that public concern with morality or expediency decrees expiation for the violation of a norm; this concern finds expression in the infliction of punishment on the evil doer by agents of the state, the evil doer, however, enjoying the protection of a regular procedure…

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Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has promised power devolution to the island’s provinces as part of the reconciliation process with the minority Tamils ahead of the August 17 parliamentary election, the PTI reproted. His government would look to devolve power in an undivided island, Wickremesinghe said. The Tamil minority has been urging for power to the north and east provinces since the LTTE’s military campaign ended in 2009. The premier said the private lands acquired for military purposes in the former conflict zones will be returned to their owners after the…

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By Nirmala Kannangara Despite claims being made by Kurunegala District UPFA candidate Mahinda Rajapaksa that government institutions had not been privatized, startling revelations have come to light as to how a Rajapaksa supporter was allowed to control the Maga Neguma Emulsion Production Company, which was one of the three subsidiaries of the Road Development Authority (RDA). After the fall of the UNP regime in 2004, the then Highways Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa decided to set up three liable entities under the RDA – Maga Neguma Road Construction Equipment Company, Maga Neguma…

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ECONOMYNEXT – Gruesome details have emerged of the murder of Sri Lanka rugger player Wasim Thajudeen ahead of the exhumation of his body, official sources said today. The killers are said to have made a former girlfriend of Wasim’s listen to him being tortured, the sources said, adding that the horrific account of the events will form part of the evidence in the case. A dossier has already been prepared by the CID, which has questioned the former girl friend who had served a brief stint as a Sri Lankan…

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Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) member and United National Front for Good Governance Parliamentary candidate Champika Ranawaka says he is ready to expose former President Mahinda Rajapaksa on some deals he had allegedly made with the LTTE through South Africa. Speaking at a media briefing today, Ranawaka also challenged Rajapaksa to face him in an open debate on claims Rajapaksa never gave funds to the LTTE. Ranawaka said that Rajapaksa is already under investigation over funds diverted to the LTTE through the Reconstruction and Development Agency (RADA). “We will be taking legal…

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Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa owes the Independent Television Network (ITN) nearly Rs.102 million for the advertisements aired during the 2015 Presidential elections, says ITN General Manager Aruna Wijesinghe. He said that investigations had revealed that the former President was yet to pay the money to the State broadcaster. Once the investigations are completed, legal action will be initiated in order to recover the money, he added. Wijesinghe said that the investigation into the failure of the former President to pay for the advertisements during the campaigning for the Presidential election…

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