Court Seeks Report on Bail Sureties for Drug Suspects
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- Colombo High Court Judge Lal Ranasinghe Bandara ordered the Criminal Investigation Department director to investigate two people who applied to stand as bail sureties.
- The applications concern about 45 suspects held on remand in drug-trafficking cases.
A Colombo High Court judge has ordered an urgent investigation into two people who came forward to provide bail for about 45 suspects detained in drug-trafficking cases.
Judge Lal Ranasinghe Bandara instructed the director of the Criminal Investigation Department to investigate the pair and report the findings to the court.
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Originally published by Lankadeepa in Sinhala. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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