Three more student leaders suspended

MONDAY, 08 SEPTEMBER 2014 

The administration of University of Peradeniya has taken steps to suspend classes of the President of Students’ Council Lasantha Aruna Shantha, its Secretary Kavindu Kulatunga and former President of Students’ Council Dimuthu Gunasekera.

The suspension has been carried out on false charges that the three student leaders scolded and threatened an assistant hostel supervisor. Fist the student leaders were suspended only for a week but later this has been changed to a year’s suspension.

The student leaders say they did not threaten the assistant hostel supervisor but went to the hostel with more than 20 other students when they heard that Nishmy Hostel was to be closed down. When they heard from the assistant hostel supervisor that there was no such plan to close down the hostel they had retuned.

They say the assistant hostel supervisor talked to them amicably.