Shiranthi to President's Commission for giving a house

December 18, 2015, 2:06 am

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Shiranthi to President's commission for the case of giving a luxury house ay low cost

The wife of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa,Shiranthi Rajapaksa has been summoned to the President;s commission of inquiry and investigate and inquire into serious

acts of fraud & corruption for abuse of power, state resources and Privileges to obtain a statement next week.

The statement is to be obtained in regard to helping a luxury house owned by the National Housing Development Authority that had been sold for a nominal price to a media advisor.

Shiranthi Rajapaksa had been accused for aiding a luxury house built at the Mattegoda housing scheme belonging to the National Housing Development Authority worth over a billion rupees that was sold to a media advisor at a very low price. .

In this regard investigations had already commenced and some officials of the NHDA had already been questioned.

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Italian National assaults Lecturer Namal assaulted at Casino

December 18, 2015, 2:09 am

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Italian National assaults Lecturer Namal at Casino club

On the 16th instant a University Lecturer while playing casino at a club in Colombo had been assaulted by an Italian national. The police had arrested the Italian National and produced before the

Fort magistrate courts.

The Chief and Additional district Magistrate of the Fort Magistrate courts Priyantha Liyanage had bailed the defendant with a deposit od rupees two lakhs and had ordered a travel ban.

The Italian National Emmanuel Liyando is the Italian National who was released on bail.The University lecturer by name is Panagodage Namal Fernando is a resident at number 80, Edirisinghe Mawatha, Nugegoda . He had been at the Kollupitiya Belargi Casino club when this incident was reported on the 16th instant.

While involved with Casino betting the two have had an argument which had ended in a clash when the University Lecturer was assaulted and subsequent to a complaint lodged at the Kollupitiya Police station the Italian National had been arrested.

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Manner how three 7 year old students had robbed a shop

December 18, 2015, 2:13 am

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Manner how three 7 year old students had robbed a shop

Three 7 year old under age students had been produced before the Badulla Magistrate Ruwandika Marasinghe for the offence of breaking a shop and robbing valuables valued at around rupees for thousand.The Magistrate had severely warned the three 7 year students not to indulge in such activities in future but to endeavour to study to become good citizens of the country.

The Lady Magistrate of the Badulla Magistrates courts Ruwandika Marasinghe had released the three students with the above warning in front of their parents had ordered them to be released. She had said in the event

they are caught again for such a theft would be severely punished.The three under age seven year old students had been produced along with their parents. When questioned by the lady Magistrate about the theft one student had accepted the fact they burgled the shop and robbed the goods valued at rupees four thousand and one.

The three students who were released in this manner are from Badulla Kendegolla area and each student was only seven years old.The three students had been arrested by the corruption prevention unit of the Badulla Police when they had discovered that they had climbed a tree and with the aid of a branch had got to the roof of the shop and had entered through the roof to rob the valuable items worth rupees four thousand and one.

This robbery had been made when the shop was closed.A by stander had seen this happening and informed the Badulla Police when officers of the corruption prevention unit had arrested the students after locating their whearabouts.

On the 16th instant a University Lecturer while playing casino at a club in Colombo had been assaulted by an Italian national. The police had arrested the Italian National and produced before the Fort magistrate courts.

The Chief and Additional district Magistrate of the Fort Magistrate courts Priyantha Liyanage had bailed the defendant with a deposit od rupees two lakhs and had ordered a travel ban.

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Using security men with fake pistols for President's security ....

December 18, 2015, 8:37 am

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Using security men with fake pistols for President's security ....

subjected to controversy

A short while later after President Maithripala returned to Sri Lanka after his tour in Rome, a person with a 9 mm. pistol in his possession was arrested by the Security Unit of the airport and

after the police were informed about it, the episode ended in a somewhat of a commotion. Whatever it is, later it came to be known that this person had been purposely used to detect whether the security proceedings for the President was carried out in the proper manner. Therefore he was released.

As a result of this problematic situation over security measures, it had caused a delay of 5 flights, Director General of Customs told the media. Higher-ups of the Civil Aviation Authority had used a person with a fake pistol to carry out this enquiry of security proceedings. Various opinions about such an action being launched as to whether it is proper as a practical measure is now being expressed. The Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation Mr. Nimal Siripala de Silva mentions that there is nothing wrong with such an investigation. He also points out that if in case the officer who hid this fake pistol in his possession was not detected by the security officers, it then could be said to be a part of a weakness on the part of the security. He also said that it is the responsibility of the Civil Aviation Authority to look into matters such as whether duties of the airport are being properly carried out, checking whether the pilots are equipped with their licenses as pilots and whether the airport has an efficient security atmosphere.

Police Media Spokesman Assistant Superintendent of Police Mr. Ruwan Gunasekera informed that the police were not notified about this sudden investigation which was to be carried out with a fake pistol being used and that if by chance that fake pistol was kept hidden somewhere on one of his legs and the person concerned was taken into custody, the police in that case would have to resort to court proceedings.

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Jackson's second daughter ....

December 18, 2015, 8:41 am

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Jackson's second daughter ....

on throes of second marriage!

We published photos of the wedding celebration of the second daughter of popular artiste Jackson Anthony previously about 5 years before this in the year 2010. Information was also published

that it was at a time that her hand was burned and she had been hospitalised for treatment that she had developed this affair with Doctor Aloka, son of well-known artiste Hemasiri Liyanage. Whatever it is, that marriage had gone on the rocks and Madhawee is now getting ready for another marriage. It is in the following manner that she had explained about it to a weekend newspaper recently:

* Madhawee is once again in a romance ... aren't you?

It's this. I also need love. In the same way I love romance too. For me ... life and love are not two things ... one. Because of that it's with love that I plan out all my activities. So even in professional activities also we two get together and go forward in life.

* Are you getting married soon?

No. But parents of course are trying hard with much effort for the marriage. But I have no such hurry. That's because I don't like to do something in a hurry and get disappointed.

* Are you still thinking about the past mistakes?

Conflicts happening in life are not only for me .... it's common to all. The only thing is.... there's a large number of people who know me from my childhood. So there's a lot of people who are concerned about even the little things that happen in my life. So even personal things in our lives some people see as big things. Everybody faces problems. So if those are viewed in a positive angle and they are faced successfully ... there's no problem. Even I faced problems in my life.

* According to what you think Madhawee .... where do you think you went wrong in life?

What happened ... happened. I don't like to have a post-mortem on those things. I am moving forward without thinking on those things. Nobody is trying to stop me either. I have no grudge with anyone either. I am not going to shoot anybody. In the same way I am trying to move forward without being shot by anybody.

* Even if a wrong is done or not ... stories are woven around popular characters. Didn't you Madhawee also face rumours because of marriage?

According to what I think there were no such big stories woven round me. Sometimes it maybe about those things that happened that those stories are woven. It maybe that some people say and write false stories. Across the internet anybody can express ideas openly. So I don't think one should think big about rumours. I don't keep thinking about matters irrelevant to me and wrongs that I haven't done. Neither will I bear a grudge against anybody. If there is anybody who says such things .... I feel sorry for them.

* You are an artiste as well as someone involved in business ... aren't you?

When you say business .... what I do is organise festivals. But that's not something that's done with a business angle in mind. It's about the tourist industry that I am pursuing studies. It's because of that that I am bent on something like that. Actually it's a very artistically creative type of work.

Discussion -- Aruni Kalupahana

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Dengue mosquito raises head again stay vigilant until end January

December 18, 2015, 9:29 am

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Dengue mosquito raises head again stay vigilant until end January

Addressing a media conference Dr Paba Palihawadena the Director of the Epidemiology unit of the Ministry of health and Chief Epidemiologist had said that the dengue mosquito has raised head again and as in previous years and in the second quarter of the season between November,December and January quarter it would have the same affect on the population as before.

In the year 2015 to date there had been 276967 cases of dengue reported put of which there had been 54 deaths. The most number of cases reported and the deaths have been from Colombo.Dr Paba Palihawadena had said that number in Colombo comprises 50% of the cases thus reported. It was also reported by her that in Municipal areas alone there has been a 30% of this number.

Dr Paba Palihawardena had advised all those who acquire temperatures which remain for more than two days to have blood tests in order to ascertain whether or not should be treated for dengue.In that event treatment could be given before the conditions aggravate.

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Politician AMS Adhikarai expires

December 19, 2015, 8:59 am

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Politician AMS Adhikarai expires

The United National Party stalwart from North Central 'Rajarata' former Minister and Member of Parliament AMS Adhikari has expired. At the time of his demise in Colombo he was 80 years old.

AMS Adhikari had entered politics in 1965 after he had been a village Headman in Kekirawa. During the periods of JR Jayewardena and R Premadasa he had been the leader of the United National Party in the 'Rajarata.' During these periods he had served as deputy Minister and Minister portfolios.

His wife Rani Adhikarai had been a Minister in the Palath Sabha.

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A Member of Parliament to commit suicide

December 19, 2015, 9:01 am

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A Member of Parliament to commit suicide

The Member of Parliament of the United National Party Vadivel Suresh has added in Parliament that if a solution is not given for the request for salary increase of estate workers he would commit suicide inside the Parliament premises.

He had wanted the government to make a decision in the Parliament for this long standing issue.The Member of Parliament Vadivel Suresh had added further that this issue has been requested and kept pending since March this year and had been delayed.

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The solitary deadly Elephant captured

December 19, 2015, 9:04 am

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The solitary deadly Elephant captured

In Moragoda ,Talawa Anuradhapura the solitary elephant who had done so much of damage to villages and had been escaping from the hands of the wild life authorities as well had ultimately been captured by the wild life authorities this morning.

The veterinary Surgeon in charge of Talawa Chandana Jayasinghe had added that this fierce Elephant had been responsible for taking the lives of many villages.

This fierce elephant is supposed to be taken to the Horowpatana where the elephant would be kept secluded.

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Earlier I went from above ....

December 19, 2015, 9:07 am

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Earlier I went from above ....

now I go from below!

- Mahinda had said in parliament

Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa had made a special speech today which incidentally is the last date

of the debate of the budget had mentioned that he thanks the Prime Minister for having taken steps to make amendments in the budget after giving ear to the masses. He further mentioned that it has been a historic budget that has been presented on this occasion and that he who went from above and now goes from below has now realise realises all matters.

Mahinda who inquired to clarify as to what has been changed and what has not been changed in the budget said that it is not clear to him as to whether this situation is democracy or else inability. Mahinda then said that he was successful in bringing the the war which went on for a period of 30 years to an end and that today some are acting as if such a thing has not taken place but said that he battled against Prabhakaran and not the Tamil community. He went on to say that the incumbent government is taking action to sell profit-making establishments and that the government is trying to live by 'selling'. The former President had said that through the process of giving vouchers instead of school uniforms it has put school-children into serious difficulty and that the money so given is not sufficient for them to buy the clothes and that he used to go from above those days but since he is now going from below it has made him see all this very clearly.

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Budget ... passed a third time

December 19, 2015, 9:10 am

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Budget ... passed a third time

13 including Mahinda, Wimal, Pavithra, Manusha, Geetha ....

avoids again!

The third Reading of the budget for 2016 held in parliament was passed this afternoon (19). As

160 voted for and 51 voted against, the third Reading of the budget for 2016 was passed with a majority of 109 votes. Douglas Devananda, Arumugam Thondaman and Lakshman Seneviratna who occupied their positions in the Opposition in parliament including MPs of the Tamil National Alliance were in favour of the budget while 13 including former President Mahinda Rajapaksa were not to be seen in parliament when the vote was taken. Those who were not present for voting at the budget were:

Mahinda Rajapaksa
Wimal Weeravansha
Pavithra Wanniaarachchi
Manusha Nanayakkara
Geetha Kumarasingha
Thenuka Vidanagamage
M.K.D.S. Goonawardena
Siripala Gamlath
Premalal Jayasekera
Janaka Bandara Tennakoon
Shivashakthi Anandan
Ali Zahir Mowlana
Selvam Adeikkalanadan

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Police thwarts the attempt of Member of Parliament to bring in petrol

December 19, 2015, 8:47 pm

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Police thwarts the attempt of Member of Parliament to bring in petrol

The United National Party Member of Parliament Vadivel Suresh who had threatened to commit suicide within the premises of the parliament if the wages of estate workers as suggested are not

increased.

In this regard to the threat he had made he had tried to bring in two gallons of petrol into the parliamentary premises on the 19th instant. His attempt had been foiled when the Police had thwarted his attempt when he was entering the parliament.

His request was however was the government to take steps for the wage increase of estate workers.Nevertheless Vadivel Suresh had voted for the government when the budget voting took place.

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Mattala,Mobitel,Norochcholai.Litro and Lanka hospitals to be sold-Mahinda

December 20, 2015, 8:52 pm

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Mattala, Mobitel,Litro ,Norochcholai and Lanka Hospitals to be sold, government plans-Mahinda

The former President and the present Member of Kurunegala district, Mahinda Rajapaksa had said in Parliament on the 19th instant that there are plans by the government to sell Mattala,

Mobitel and Norochcholai ,hence the Ministers of the United Peoples Freedom Alliances should remain be vigil over them.

This had been said during the Budget 2016 debate. He had said the government has intentions of making everything private. All proposals are made to benefit them by selling .The former President had said that Lanka hospitals, Litro gas institutions are organisations which derive a large profit. Hence such profitable institutions should not be sold. In this context the members of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party should intervene. The secretary of the SLFP has a huge responsibility.

He also had added that in order to take forward the principles of the party the leader of the party should take precautions to protect the party.

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Wimal for donating houses Jayantha to President's commission

December 20, 2015, 10:08 pm

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Wimal for donating houses Jayantha to President's commission

During the last regime when Wimal Weerawansa was the Minister of housing and Construction a number of luxury houses built valued at millions of rupees under the purview of the National Housing Development Authority had been sold at very low cost to

the relatives of the former Minister Wimal Weerawansa.

In this regard to obtain a statement in this regard the former Chairman of the National Housing Development Authority and Member of Parliament Jayantha Samaraweeea had been called to the President's commission of bribery and corruption on the 21st instant.

It has been reported that four out of five luxury houses built at the Mattegoda and Kahatuduwa NHDA schemes had been given to the relatives of former Minister Wilmal Weerawansa and the other one had been given to the media advisor to the then first Lady Shiranthi Rajapaksa. all at very nominal prices. In this regard complaints had been lodged at the President's commission of Bribery and Corruption.

From the initial investigations it had revealed that a house which is worth over a billion had been sold for about amounts ranging from rupees five lakhs and above.

In addition another complaint has been lodged at the President's commission that a house belonging to the National Housing Development authority worth about rupees one billion had been given the ownership to a female friend of the former Minister Wimal Weerawansa,Praba Vishodana an officer under him. In this regard also investigations had begun at the President's commission of Bribery and Corruption.

It is reported that in this connection two Brother's in laws and relatives of the former Minister Wimal Weerawansa had been summoned and statements recorded from them.

The reports from the authorities of the Presidential commission have already revealed that houses worth billions and some lesser than billions have been sold to relatives and associates of the former Minister Wimal Weerawansa.

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Body of Pettah 'Nattami' floats on water at floating market

December 20, 2015, 10:11 pm

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Body of Pettah 'Nattami' floats on water at floating market

The body of a dead person who had died mysteriously and floating in the water close to the floating market had been found by the police officers of the Maradana police on the morning of yesterday the

20th instant.

The officers of the Maradana police had gone to the site when the dealers of the floating market had called them and given the information.

The police has suspected the dead person to be a Pettah 'Nattami".However the name of the person has not yet been known. He is gauged to be a person between the age of 45 to 50 years.

This person is five feet and four inches tall and had been clad in a blue colour T shirt and a red colour sarong and short trouser black in colour.

The police is yet to ascertain the cause of death. They suspect that he may be a person who is suffering from an illness or had fallen into the water.The police is investigating in this regard.

The body of this dead person is now kept in the Police mortuary.

The investigations are been carried out under the purview of the Officer in Charge of the Maradana Police assisted by the Chief Inspector of Police Sarath Perera and the sub inspector of Police of the crime division Madura Silva.

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Unfortunate death of two-year old toddler

December 21, 2015, 1:28 am

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Two years and eight months old toddler dies from electric shock ....

trying to push chisel into a plug

A toddler in Wissacolaniya, Weliwatta, Hambantota unfortunately became a victim of electric shock while in his house last Friday.

This 2 years and 8 months old child had tried to

poke a chisel inside a multi-plug and the current flowing along its metal piece had entered the body of the child, thus resulting in this accident. This is how the mother of the deceased boy Vishwa Sandesh explained the incident:

"On the day of the incident I went to the brook with the child to wash him. Later I brought the child home and wiped him by keeping him on the bed. Since that was the time he used to eat, like on other days I kept him on the bed and went to the kitchen to bring his food. I heard the child screaming all of a sudden and when I looked, the child appeared unconscious. He had in fact got down from the bed and had poked a chisel into the multi-plug which was lying on the ground and was still in that position. I quickly switched off the plug and pulled him away. Then I took him to the hospital. What to do oh god .... the child was dead by that time".

It was revealed at the post-mortem that when the mother had gone to the kitchen the child who had tried to play with a chisel lying on the table had then tried to poke a screw driver into an unprotected power plug and had thus got electrocuted. It was also revealed there, that the current had passed through the right hand of the child and had found its outlet from his left leg. Because of using electricity in the house in an unprotected manner where children are,this child too was subjected to an unexpected accident.

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What Namal said after publishing an upside down photo

December 21, 2015, 1:35 am

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What Namal said after publishing an upside down photo ....

of Mahinda 'thaththa'

A certain photograph published in the Facebook Page of MP Namal Rajapaksa yesterday was something that perplexed those who saw it for a moment. What was seen there was a scene where former

President Mahinda Rajapaksa was holding a pillow in his hand and hanging from a rope.

It is said that it was clicked when he was engaged in Yoga exercises. A former stately President hanging like this is in one hand something special. On the other hand someone who has completed his 70 years being able to be in this position speaks about his health condition. ("I still can ...."). What Namal says about publicizing a photo of this nature across the Facebook is that since it is the birthday of Mahinda's Yoga teacher who appears in the photo, he has published this as a gift to him. Actually, this teacher is Nanda Siriwardena and because of this photograph he would become even more famous. What Namal further says is that Nanda would be appointed as the teacher of Namal's children too. The comment and photo left by Namal is as follows

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Today is the birthday of a respectable Sri Lankan and teacher. He is none other than outstanding Yoga teacher Nanda Siriwardena. Nobody would have so far seen a souvenir that I bestow on him as the birthday gift.

It is the moment which I clicked on my camera; the day after my loving father's 70th birthday when engaged in Yoga exercises in the company of Guru Nanda.

Mentor, My wish today is that you sir who is the Yoga teacher of me and my father would one day be the mentor of my children too.

Blessings of the Triple! Gem!

What Namal said after publishing an upside down photo

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Schoolboy dies .... a 'Koththuwa' has turned poison!

December 21, 2015, 1:38 am

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Schoolboy dies .... a 'Koththuwa' has turned poison!

An 18 year old schoolboy who had consumed a 'Koththu' rotti in the night bought from a hotel had passed away on 17th Friday, it is reported

from Uragasmanghandiya.

The deceased is a student by the name of Dehemi Ayeshan Pathiraja, a son of a sergeant of Uragasmanghandiya Police. The elder brother of this schoolboy had bought a 'Koththu' rotty from the city and the student having eaten it in the night had engaged in his studies as usual and retired to bed and a few hours later the student had died while in his sleep. This student had been sleeping alone in a room in the house after partaking of the meal but since he had failed to get up the following morning his mother had enquired about him and on noticing that his body had become stiff and cold had yelled out. At that moment the neighbours had come to her assistance and taken the boy to Uragasmanghandiya Hospital; but what the doctors had said was that even by then he had passed away.

It was revealed at the medical examination that the cause of death was that the yeast and flavouring agents in the 'koththu' had been excessive in quantity and the juice of that food had got accumulated in the boy's lungs. It was further mentioned that the gastric juice of that night meal had found its way into the lungs and has resulted in this infectious condition causing death.

This student in fact was a most skillful Volleyball player and equally so in athletic events in the school Karandeniya Madhya Maha Vidyalaya and he was to sit for his Advanced Level Examination next year in the Commerce stream, it was reported. What this student's mother D.G. Sriya (43) and father, police sergeant Nihal Pathiraja (43) said was that it is Ayeshan who happened to be the second child from a family of three boys who faced this fate.

Though 'Koththu' rotty is a popular item of food for Sri Lankans, because of the present demand for it, it is being made available without any standard or criterion as such and Health Authorities have been cautioned to plan out a proper methodology for it.

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Ravi who was made four legged carried by Ranil and Maithri to winning post (Monday's cartoon)

December 21, 2015, 9:28 am

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Ravi who was made four legged carried by Ranil and Maithri to winning post (Monday's cartoon)

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Mother deploys young girl to rob during New Year shopping spree

December 21, 2015, 9:30 am

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Mother deploys young girl to rob during New Year shopping spree

The officers attached to the Ingiriya police station have commenced investigations in regard to an incident that had taken place in a shopping complex in Ingiriya when within the complex it was very busy with shoppers who were doing last moment shopping for the new year.

A mother had deployed a young girl to rob cash from the shoe shop which was shown by the CCTV cameras and in this regard Ingiriya police has started investigations. It had been a Sunday when the customers had patronised the shop in their numbers. The mother who had deployed the young girl had robbed a sum of Rs 55,000/- from the cahier's drawer. The manner this robbery had been manipulated is very clearly shown in the pictures of the CCTV cameras

The pictures from the CCTV camera clearly show how this mother had helped to open the drawer where the money was kept and how the young girl had very tactfully taken out the money that was in the drawer amidst the huge number of customers who were present within the premises..

It is suspected that the young girl is the daughter of the woman who accompanied her and in this regard the Ingiriya police is conducting investigations.

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