CID busts credit card racket

Four men who were allegedly involved in a massive credit card racket along with employees of several petrol filling stations were taken in for questioning by Criminal Investigation Department sleuths last week, Police Media Spokesman SP Prishantha Jayakody told the Sunday Observer yesterday.

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Darusman Report:

Humanity extended by Security Forces ignored

It was with heavy heart, that I went through the pages of the report released by the Advisory panel to the UN Secretary General Ban ki-Moon on the final days of the humanitarian operation conducted by the Sri Lankan Security Forces against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam,

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Sunday Crime

Land dispute and love affair lead to killing of two women

It was a protracted struggle between two closely related farming families in Galnewa in the Anuradhapura district over a paddy land that led to the killing of a woman and grievously injuring her husband last week. The dispute centred around a two and a half acre paddy land located in the same village.

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