The Officer-in-Charge (OIC) of the Kundasale Police Training School has been arrested by the Nuwara Eliya Police in connection with the suspicious death of a physiotherapist in Teldeniya.

Police said the arrest was made on charges of aiding and abetting the main suspect and his wife to hide.

Extensive investigations are already underway into this death, and the police stated that this officer has been arrested based on a confession made by the suspect.

The OIC of the Kundasale Police Training School is reported to have served as the former OIC of the Menikhinna Police Station.

Meanwhile, the Nuwara Eliya Magistrate’s Court has granted permission to detain and question the main suspect, his wife, and another suspect for 48 hours.

On June 17, the body of the physiotherapist was discovered inside a car near the Teldeniya Hospital. (Newswire)

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The new Central Province Governor, S.B.S. Abayakoon has instructed to immediately rename the ‘Keheliya Rambukwella Primary School’ in the Kundasale Division of the Wattegama Education Zone in Kandy.

It is reported that the Structural Committee of the Provincial Education Department has recommended renaming the school as Kundasale Royal Primary School.

Accordingly, the Central Province Governor granted approval for the proposed name change yesterday (Oct 16).

The move comes after the Ceylon Teachers Union (CTU) alleged that a school in Kundasale has been named after former Minister Keheliya Rambukwella in violation of an Education Ministry circular. 

At the time, the CTU pointed out that as per the Education Ministry circular issued in 1996 schools cannot be named after a living person, urging for immediate action to be taken against naming a school in such a manner.

The CTU raised concerns after Keheliya Rambukwella was remanded over the illegal importation of substandard stocks of Immune Globulin vaccines under his tenure as the Minister of Health. (Newswire)

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The Ceylon Teachers Union (CTU) has alleged that a school in Kundasale has been named after former Minister Keheliya Rambukwella in violation of an Education Ministry circular, it was reported. 

CTU Secretary Joseph Stalin pointed out that as per the Education Ministry circular issued in 1996 schools cannot be named after a living person. 

He further said that immediate action must be taken against naming a school after a living individual.

The appeal comes as the former Keheliya Rambukwella is currently in remand custody over the illegal importation of substandard stocks of Immune Globulin vaccines under his tenure as the Minister of Health.

In November last year, the Criminal Investigations Department commenced an investigation into allegations that a pharmaceutical company had imported 22,500 vials of substandard Immune Globulin vaccines by creating forged documents with the assistance of two senior state officials from the Health Ministry.

Investigations at the time revealed that financial fraud of Rs. 130 million had occurred via the imports of the said substandard medicine. (NewsWire)

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