UNP WPC member Kahatapitiya remanded
2015-09-11
Former Western Province Opposition leader and UNP Provincial Councillor Kithsiri Kahatapitiya has been remanded till Monday by the Horana Magistrate on charges of having kept an elephant calf under a fraudulent permit.
The baby elephant, with injuries on her legs, was found at the house of Mr. Kahatapitiya in Horana on February 4.
The animal was handed over to the National Wildlife Training Centre in Giritale by the Horana Magistrate. (Budhika Kumarasiri)
2015-09-11Former Western Province Opposition leader and UNP Provincial Councillor Kithsiri Kahatapitiya has been remanded till Monday by the Horana Magistrate on charges of having kept an elephant calf under a fraudulent permit. The baby elephant, with injuries on her legs, was found at the house of Mr. Kahatapitiya in Horana on February 4.
The animal was handed over to the National Wildlife Training Centre in Giritale by the Horana Magistrate. (Budhika Kumarasiri)
