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Ranjan leaves for US

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Former Member of Parliament Ranjan Ramanayake who received Presidential Pardon last month has left the island for the United States.

Ranjan Ramanayake left the Katunayake International Airport at around 3.50 on a Doha bound flight.

He is expected to attend several concerts in the US and Canada.

Ranjan Ramanayake was prevented from boarding a flight and leaving the country on Thursday night due to a travel ban imposed on him.

Airport officials confirmed that he had obtained an order to lift the ban and cleared immigration.

Officials on Thursday said Ranjan Ramanayake was turned back as a travel ban had been imposed by court in relation to two cases pending against him.

On the 26th of August, President Ranil Wickremesinghe signed the document granting Ranjan Ramanayake Presidential Pardon.

He left Welikada Prison on the same day.

On the 12th of January 2021, Ranjan Ramanayake was sentenced to a four-year rigorous imprisonment by the Supreme Court on charges of contempt of court.

He was accused of the charge over making a statement to media following a meeting at the Temple Trees on the 21st of August 2017 defaming judges and attorneys in the country.

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Grenade found from garden of Kabaddi Federation President

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A live grenade manufactured abroad has been found in front of the house of Sri Lanka Kabaddi Federation President – Mr. Anura Dharmaratne, which is located in the Dolahamuna area in Hettipola.

Mr. Dharmaratne had lodged a complaint yesterday (26) with the Hettipola police, saying that there’s a grenade in front of his car which was parked on his land.

He had claimed someone had planted the grenade thus after someone who had been offended after it was announced that he was going to contest for the Kabbaddi presidency again.

Subsequently, police had visited the premises and seized the grenade.
So far, no arrests have been made in connection with the incident.

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Army Sanath arrested

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Notorious criminal and drug trafficker – ‘Army Sanath’ has been arrested in the Ahangama area during an operation carried out by the Police Special Task Force in Ahangama area.

He had also been in possession of 15 grams of heroin at the time of arrest.

According to the Police STF, ‘Army Sanath’ has operated the crime and drug ring of another notorious criminal – ‘Harak Kata’.

Authorities also say that it has been revealed that ‘Army Sanath’ had been in charge of transporting weapons for a spate of recent shootings as well as cleaning these weapons following the shootings and handing them over to various persons on the instructions of ‘Harak Kata’.

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2 CMC workers working in sewage gully, die 

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Two labourers engaged in maintenance work of a sewage gully network in Hettiyawatta, Kotahena had died today afternoon, Police said.
They were attached to the Colombo Municipal Council.

The workers had been unconscious when hospitalized and had later died.

Police say that they suspect the workers had inhaled a poisonous gas in the sewer.

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