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Probe to find those dumping toilet waste near Somawathiya!

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Wildlife officers of Polonnaruwa have detected an incident of releasing toilet waste in the Somawathiya National Park.

The historical Somawathiya Chaitya, where the right tooth of the Buddha is enshrined, is located inside this National Park.

Environmentalists said that this toilet waste has been released into the forest area located 300 meters away from the Chaitya by means of gully bowers, and the annual Dalada Perahara of the Somawathiya Raja Maha Vihara also takes place near the site where this waste has been released.

They said that the released waste mixes with the water and flows gradually to the Mahaweli River, and pigs and other animals come to feed on this waste. As a result, a strong stench emanates in the area around the temple grounds.

Polonnaruwa Wildlife Range Officer W.M. Kumarasiri and other wildlife officials first discovered that toilet waste was being released into an environmentally sensitive area by gully bowsers on December 11 last year and have notified the matter to the relevant departments responsible for managing waste.

However, due to the continuous discharge of toilet waste into the National Park, wildlife officials have taken steps to report the matter to the Polonnaruwa Magistrates’ Court.

Accordingly, Polonnaruwa Magistrate U.N.S.A. Wickramaratne ordered that the suspects be arrested and produced in court.

Polonnaruwa wildlife officials have made arrangements to produce the driver of the gully bowser in the court in the near future.

The Lankapura Pradeshiya Sabha operates a toilet waste disposal site and it charges Rs.3,500 per one gully.

Environmentalists said that despite the fact that there is a waste collection point, the disposal of waste in the Somawathiya National Park may pose a serious environmental threat in the future.

Source – Aruna

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Cargills FoodCity assault : suspects released on bail

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The suspects recently remanded over assaulting a young woman at the Borella Cargills FoodCity supermarket, have been released on bail.

Colombo Additional Magistrate Sajindra Weerasuriya today (25) ordered to release the suspects on a surety of Rs. 5,000 each.

The suspects were produced before an identification parade and the complainant identifies 05 out of the 07 suspects.

Also, it was previously stated that the complainant had committed previous offences, it was singular that no such thing was mentioned in the police reports submitted to the court.

The court ordered to take up the case again on Nov. 08.

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Fmr. SDIG gets 5-yr. jail term

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The Ratnapura High Court has sentenced former Senior DIG Lalith Jayasinghe for five-year imprisonment for intimidating Kahawatte OIC not to arrest MP Premalal Jayasekera over a shooting incident.

Ratnapura High Court also ordered the convict to pay a fine of Rs. 20,000.

The shooting incident took place during the 2015 Presidential election campaign.

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Notice on issuing revenue licenses in WP

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The Department of Motor Traffic has decided to temporarily suspend the issuing of revenue licenses in the Western Province due to a system update.

According to the department, the services will be unavailable from this Wednesday (September 27) to next Monday (October 02). 

The Motor Traffic Department said in a statement that vehicles of which revenue licenses are expiring from Tuesday, September 26 can be renewed until October 10, without fines. 

Meanwhile, the online service for revenue licenses was temporarily suspended from midnight yesterday (September 24) and will remain so until Friday, October 06.

The department added that the temporary service suspension was due to an update on the system maintained by the Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka.

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