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Railway strike affects office trains (Update)

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Several office trains have been cancelled due to a railway strike this evening.

The Army has been deployed at the Fort railway station following the cancellation of trains and protests by commuters.

Railway General Manager Kumara Gunasinghe confirmed that about 40% of office trains have been affected.

Operative Superintendent M. J Indipola has said that guards are delaying the trains on purpose in order to get the trains cancelled.

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(Previous News: 04th October, 2023 at 12:52pm)

Station Masters request not to make Railways Dept. an Authority

The Railways Station Masters’ Association said that it has requested the President to take steps to restructure Sri Lanka Railways without making it an Authority.

Its secretary Kasun Chamara said that many issues may arise if Railways Department was made an Authority.

He further said: “We, as the Railways Station Master’s Association, have expressed our views at all the meetings. We have always said that it would be better to restructure Sri Lanka Railways instead of making it an authority. We have seen the Secretary of the Ministry saying that the Treasury will not allocate funds to pay the employees’ salary. He said that the salaries of the employees should be paid based on the profit earned by the department which currently incurs heavy losses. I think any move to make the deportment an authority should be decided by an experts committee.”

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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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