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Rajith responds to Vidyaratne’s land racket accusations

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Minister of Plantation and Community Infrastructure – Samantha Vidyarathna has charged that former governor – Rajith Keerthi Tennakoon has illegally acquired 18 acres of land belonging to the Department of Wildlife and Forest Conservation.

Speaking during a media briefing held yesterday (Jan. 09), Vidyarathna said several complaints had been received from several parties over the illegal acquisition of land in the Bogahapelessa Forest Reserve and an unlawful electricity project in the area.

He revealed that it had been found that a group had obtained 5,482 acres of land.

“According to the project report, the land had been obtained by an individual identifying himself as K.T. Ranjith. We launched a probe to find this individual. It was found that he had used a fake NIC number for this purpose,” he said. 

Noting that the fake NIC number had an extra digit, Vidyaratne added that the original NIC belonged to Rajith Keerthi Tennakoon, a former governor and former President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s Director General for Community Affairs.

Responding, Mr. Tennakoon, in a Facebook post, has said that Vidyaratne had levelled the aforementioned claims to tarnish his reputation and he has already sought legal measures in this regard.

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Assets of 02 police officers to be probed

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Assets of two prominent police officers are to be probed after authorities received a number of complaints, highly placed sources in the government say.

One officer in question is a DIG while the other is a SSP, reports add.

The Police Illegal Assets And Property Investigation Division are conducting further investigations.

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AG seeks CID probe into social media smear campaign against his staff

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The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has opened a probe following a complaint by Attorney General Parinda Ranasinghe that his staff have been unduly targeted by false allegations on social media.

The AG’s instruction to the CID came after several of his staff complained to him over the allegation on social media.

Particularly targeted are senior AG’s Department officials awaiting promotions, sources said.

In one of the posts, a senior officer was accused of being supportive of granting bail to Thamil Makkal Viduthal Puligal (TMVP) leader Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan, alias Pillaiyan, when his fundamental rights application over his arrest was taken up. During the hearing of the FR case, the matter of bail was not even considered, the sources said.

Another allegation was that in a case related to the suspended Police Chief Deshabandu Tennakoon, the AG prevented a senior officer from representing the department and instead sent a junior officer. However, on the particular day, the senior officer was indisposed, the sources said.

These allegations surface as the AG’s Department has filed more than 600 new indictments in High Courts so far this year, while the Bribery Commission has also referred several bribery and corruption cases to the AG for prosecution.

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

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19-yr. old dies after falling from elevator

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A 19-year-old youth has died after falling from a service elevator at a hotel in the Pannai area, in the Jaffna Police Division.

According to the police, the incident had occurred last night (June 21) and the deceased has been identified as a resident of Nirveli, Jaffna.

According to investigations, the youth was employed at the hotel and had been using the service elevator -intended for transporting goods.

Further investigations are underway.

This incident follows a similar case recently reported from a hotel in Moratuwa last week.

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