The Colombo District Court has issued an interim order preventing Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe from functioning as the Chairman of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and Keerthi Udawatta as Acting General Secretary of the party.

This order was issued today (May 20) by Colombo District Judge Sandun Withana after considering a plaint submitted by MP Duminda Dissanayake.

Colombo Chief Magistrate Thilina Gamage has issued an order naming former State Minister Diana Gamage as a suspect in a case related to obtaining a passport through submission of false information to the Controller General of Immigration and Emigration.
During court proceedings, the CID had informed that the former State Minister was reported missing from her residence.

The CID also told the court that based on their investigation, Diana Gamage can be named as a suspect in the case filed in court.

Accordingly the Colombo Chief Magistrate ordered to name Diana Gamage as a suspect, and directed the CID  to proceed with further actions related to the suspect.

Four suspected ISIS terrorists have been arrested from the Ahmedabad airport, days after the airport received a bomb threat. The terrorists are believed to be citizens of Sri Lanka.
The Gujarat Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) made the arrests when they were allegedly waiting at the airport for their handler. The handler was supposed to give them task, sources said. The police have also recovered encrypted chats from their phones.

According to the sources, agents in Pakistan had promised them some weapons that they were likely to use in an attack but the suspected terrorists were caught before that.

The men allegedly reached Ahmedabad from Sri Lanka via Chennai. They were arrested before they could reach their target location.
On May 12, the Ahmedabad airport received a bomb threat email which turned out to be a hoax after security personnel searched the airport complex, but nothing suspicious was found. The threat email was sent by an unidentified person on the official email ID of the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in the afternoon, following which the security personnel at the airport scanned the entire airport, said Commissioner of Police, GS Malik.

Post a comment In August last year, the ATS arrested three persons from Rajkot for their alleged links to Al Qaeda. They were prima facie working for a Bangladeshi handler to radicalise and recruit people for the banned terrorist organisation.

(NDTV)

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