Fewer incidents of election violence - Police

A few incidents of election violence compared to the number of incidents in the previous elections was reported yesterday, Police sources said. The Police Elections Monitoring Desk had received 156 complaints by 5.00 pm yesterday from the Western and Southern Provinces, Police spokesman SSP Ajith Rohana said.

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Intelligence units on high alert:

Three wanted suspects at large:

Signs of LTTE regrouping in North and East

The TID having received information of a house suspected to be of sheltering Appan in Dharmapuram went on a search mission a few weeks ago. When the sleuths went inside the house to search, an armed man hiding under a bed fired several rounds at the approaching officials and fled the scene. Sub Inspector Ratnakumara who was among the search party received injuries after being shot in the leg.The suspect fled in the melee and was identified as Gopi, whom the TID was looking for. Although there was insufficient information leading to prove the presence of Appan at the time of the confrontation, the police took the woman who was in charge of the house into custody along with her daughter,

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Money, money in a rich man's world...

The police found Rs.2,015, 000 in the two parcels of cash brought to be deposited in the bank. They found 403 forged Rs.5, 000 notes in the packs. Dulanjalee had told the Police that she had invested some money with a company and she got two million rupees as profit for her investment. The suspect was remanded by the Colombo Chief Magistrate Gihan Pilapitiya till April 4.

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