(Lanka-e-News -13.Sep.2011, 10.15P.M.) A people’s informant of Lanka e news has reported that a white Van without a registration number as well as a number plate (most notorious for criminal activities) has today travelled via Mahabage , Wattala, Peliyagoda and Baseline Road and entered Colombo this morning (13). This concerned people’s reporter has intimated this to the Traffic police officer on duty at the Wattala main junction, without avail , as he had paid no heed. He had not even taken the simple step of transmitting a radio message about this serious multiple traffic offence. Neither has he chased after this Van in his motor bike. The Van was driven by a youth wearing a yellow Tee shirt and a sun glass. This vehicle entered Colombo via Baseline road without any incidents. The biggest question mark is , what is this mysterious white Van without a number and number plate ? Despite the police being informed , why wasn’t it seized.? How was this Van driven from Mahabage to Colombo so fearlessly and sans suspicion, and for what purpose ?
May we recall that an earlier IGP told via the media to the fair sex to take photographs using their mobile phones of those who try to molest them and inform the police.
The third picture reveals how the police is ignoring the white Van as though they have not seen it.
Our profuse thanks to the public spirited people’s reporter . If there are more like you there will be fewer like these white Van criminals and behind the scene culprits backing them in Sri Lanka no matter how high their personal or political status More >>
========================================================= May we recall that an earlier IGP told via the media to the fair sex to take photographs using their mobile phones of those who try to molest them and inform the police.
The third picture reveals how the police is ignoring the white Van as though they have not seen it.
Our profuse thanks to the public spirited people’s reporter . If there are more like you there will be fewer like these white Van criminals and behind the scene culprits backing them in Sri Lanka no matter how high their personal or political status More >>
Kandiah highlights glaring shortcomings in title registration
September 12, 2011, 9:59 pm
Citing glaring shortcomings in the title registration system, President of the All Ceylon Hindu Council and attorney-at-law Kandiah Neelakandan has requested the BASL to urge the Ministry of Land and Land Development to halt the issuing of deeds under the Title Act which is not in operation in the Northern region.
According to the new measures, the government has requested the Tamils who had left the country to apply for new deeds. The ministry is supposed to verify the authentication of each application and the respective land will be surveyed before a new deed is issued to the rightful owner.
In a letter sent to the President of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka, Shibly Aziz, Neelakandan says that the Ministry of Land and Land Development cannot seek to give deeds without having legal provisions.
The law applicable to registration of ownership in Sri Lanka is the Registration of Documents Ordinance except in areas in which the Registration of Title Act has been brought into operation and the BASL has requested that numerous deficiencies of the Title Act be amended before being implemented.
He says that the application form has been prepared in a haphazard manner and certain clarifications are needed on conferring the ownership since the ownership cannot be transferred by an illegal transfer. He also says that arrangement in the application form that the authentication of title being decided on observation and certification from the Grama Niladhari is unsatisfactory. Therefore, he has requested the BASL to urge the government to amend the Act rectifying all the deficiencies pointed out by the BASL and implement the act in the Northern region and in the rest of the country in a lawful manner. (PH)
