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16-year-old girl allegedly raped by 22 schoolboys

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9 months ago

August 12, 2024

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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)

(This story, originally published by dailymirror.lk has not been edited by SLM staff)

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03 vehicles collide at railway crossing

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2 hours ago

May 21, 2025

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03 vehicles have collided at the Merawala railway crossing on the Chilaw-Colombo main road.

The accident occurred at around 6.25 a.m. this morning (May 21) when a van, which had stopped behind a fuel bowser at the Chilaw Marawala railway crossing while it was closed for train traffic, was rear-ended by a prime mover transporting cement.

The prime mover had been unable to stop due to brake failure.

The van involved in the accident sustained significant damage and Chilaw Police are currently conducting further investigations.

(Pic: Accident 1st)

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Ramith Rambukwella arrives before CIABOC

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2 hours ago

May 21, 2025

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Ramith Rambukwella – son of former Minister Keheliya Rambukwella arrived at the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) earlier today (May 21) to record a statement.

Colombo Chief Magistrate Thanuja Lakmali yesterday (May 20) ordered the further remand of Keheliya Rambukwella until June 03, following his arrest by the CIABOC over 03 complaints related to alleged corruption.

The court also granted permission to name Ramith Rambukwella as a suspect in the case.

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Mahindananda seeks permission for home cooked meals

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2 hours ago

May 21, 2025

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Former Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage, who is currently in remand custody, has submitted a written request to prison authorities seeking permission to receive food from his home.

He is currently being held at the “M 2” ward of the Colombo Remand Prison along with around 10 other prisoners, according to reports.

It is also reported that former minister Keheliya Rambukwella is being detained in the same ward.