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16-year-old girl allegedly raped by 22 schoolboys

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Police began probe on a case where a 16- year- old girl in Thanamalwila had been raped by 22 schoolboys.

Statements were recorded from some of the suspects and parents according to police.

The victim has informed police that she was forced to take liquor before she was gang raped during preliminary investigations. She stated that she had been in love with a schoolboy of the same school she was attending.

She was taken to her lover’s house and gang- raped with several other schoolboys after forcing her to take liquor.they had blackmailed her by showing a video recording of the incident and raped her at times by the schoolboy with whom she had been in love and by 21 others of her school for more than a year.

A 16-year-old schoolgirl in Buttala has delivered a child at Ragama Teaching Hospital.

Buttala Police conducting investigations said she was a Grade Eleven student of a school in the area who had been in love with a 19-year-old.

Her parents, realizing the girl was pregnant, had sent her to her grandmother’s house in Ragama.

However, when she delivered the child, the hospital authorities had informed Buttala Police who initiated investigations and arrested the young man.

The suspect was to be produced before Wellawaya Police yesterday. OIC Buttala Police W.M.J. Bandara is conducting further investigations.

(dailymirror.lk)

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Equipment given to non cricket playing schools in WP

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The Ministry of Youth and Sports today distributed cricket equipment to 30 selected schools in the Western Province that currently do not offer cricket.

The programme is done with the goal of ensuring that every child interested in cricket has the opportunity to pursue the sport, despite their economic status. It is also expected to be expanded to all districts in the future.

The distribution was held under the patronage of Deputy Minister of Sports Sugath Thilakaratne at the Ministry premises.

Officials from the Ministry, principals, teachers, and students from the selected schools participated in the event.

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New Chief Secretary appointed to WP

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President Anura Kumara Disanayake has appointed Mr K.G.P. Pushpakumara as the Chief Secretary of the Western Province.

The official letter of appointment was handed over to Mr Pushpakumara today (June 06) at the Presidential Secretariat by Secretary to the President, Dr Nandika Sanath Kumanayake.

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Bill to scrap MPs’ pensions, to be tabled in Parliament in July

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The government has decided to present a bill to abolish pensions for Members of Parliament at the upcoming Cabinet meeting.

Minister of Public Security and Parliamentary Affairs, Ananda Wijepala, stated that the bill has been finalized by the Legal Draftsman and is scheduled to be tabled in Parliament next month.

In addition, the Minister announced that the issuance of vehicle licenses to MPs has also been suspended, as part of broader efforts to reduce public expenditure and restore trust in political accountability.

(dailynews.lk)

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