Investigations pertaining to the case on the recent death of a 16 year old in Kalutara, has been handed over to the CID on the directives of the IGP.

(Previous news: 11^th May, 2023 at 05:56pm)

Kalutara teen’s death : Hotel owner’s wife arrested

The wife of the owner of the hotel in Kalutara in which the 16-year-old girl had stayed prior to her suspicious death, has been arrested by Police.

Accordingly, the suspect, a 48-year-old resident of Katukurunda, Kalutara, was arrested for not properly checking the National Identity Card (NIC) of the girl before providing her with accommodation at the hotel owned by her husband.

Police further noted that she is to be produced before the Kalutara Magistrate’s Court this evening (11).

Pakistan’s Supreme Court has ruled that former prime minister Imran Khan’s dramatic arrest on corruption charges this week was illegal.

The court ordered Mr Khan’s immediate release. His lawyers had argued that his detention from court premises in Islamabad on Tuesday was unlawful.

At least 10 people have been killed and 2,000 arrested as violent protests have swept the country since he was held.

Tuesday’s arrest escalated growing tensions between him and the military.

The opposition leader, ousted in a confidence vote in April last year, was brought to court on the orders of Pakistan’s top judge.

“Your arrest was invalid so the whole process needs to be backtracked,” Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial told Mr Khan.

The former cricketer told the judges he’d been kidnapped from the High Court and “hit with sticks”.

Footage showed paramilitary forces seizing Mr Khan, who was injured in a gun attack last year, and dragging him from inside court premises, before whisking him away in an armoured vehicle.

His PTI party say the cases against him are politically motivated. The arrest enraged his supporters – the past 48 hours have seen widespread violence and rare attacks on state and military facilities.

(BBC News)

Station masters have warned they will not hesitate to withdraw from services for a week, if their demands are not met.

President of the Sri Lanka Railway Station Masters’ Union Sumedha Somaratne said that they would do so if solutions are not given to their issues during the discussion with the Subject Minister on Tuesday.

He added that they hope to receive a positive response and that the ministry secretary will issue necessary instructions to the General Manager of Sri Lanka Railways.

He said they are confident that they will receive a positive response during the meeting.

Mr. Somaratne also said the token strike launched by the Sri Lanka Railway Station Masters’ Union, which ended yesterday midnight, was successful.