Controversial ex-PC member re-remanded

THURSDAY, 25 JULY 2013

Former Provincial Councilor Ananda Sarath Kumara who is alleged to have made a teacher kneel before him, was re- remanded by the Puttalam Magistrate till August 8, for violating bail conditions.

He was ordered to be remanded by magistrate Ranga Dissanayake for violating article 14 (1) of the bail act. (Pix by Hiran Priyankara Jayarathne and Jude Samantha )

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Agitating carpenters attack Jeevan with empty bottles BY PREMALAL WIJERATNA-2013-07-25  Carpenters who staged a protest in Moratuwa yesterday (24), attacked Postal Services Minister, Jeevan Kumaratunga, with empty water bottles, when he visited the area to speak with them.   Nearly 2,000 carpenters from Moratuwa and the Rawathawatta areas, who are reportedly feeling the impact of their trade being in the doldrums, due to furniture prices plummeting, marched to the town in protest, demanding the government to provide them some tangible relief to overcome their difficulties. A senior police officer present at the scene confirmed that some protesters had thrown empty water bottles at the minister, adding he was not hurt in the incident. The police had thereafter escorted the minister to a nearby house, and had later escorted him from the area under police security. Police said the carpenters who had started the protest march from the vicinity of a temple in Rawathawatta, had split up at the Moratuwa Divisional Secretariat after handing over a petition to the Divisional Secretary. Meanwhile, according to police sources, Minister Kumaratunga had not given a statement to the police about the incident until yesterday afternoon.