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Avissawella bodies: Expedite probe, President tells IGP

COLOMBO: President Mahinda Rajapaksa has directed the IGP to expedite inquiries into the bodies found in several areas including Avissawella on April 27 to ascertain the assassins responsible for these murders, a President's Office release said yesterday. The IGP was further instructed to submit his report on the incident as early as possible.

Govt. Information Department photo exhibition

COLOMBO: A photographic exhibition organised by the Government Information Department to mark World Press Freedom Day will be held at the Committee Room C of the BMICH from May 1 to 3.

This exhibition will include rare photographs.

Many photographs of former photographers of the Government Information Department Vincent Sumathipala, D.D. Perera, Percy Umagiliya, Tissa Kotalawela, Athula Karunaratne and present photographers P.D. Ranjith Sarath Dharmasiri, and President's official photographer Sudath Silva and Wensley Matara Arachchi, will be exhibited.

Media and Information Minister Anura Priyadharshana Yapa, Ministry Secretary W.B. Ganegala, and Government Information Director Anusha Pelpita will participate in the inauguration of this exhibition.

Man nabbed for cheating several companies

Rafik JALALDEEN

COLOMBO: The Fraud Bureau arrested a man suspected of having cheated Rs. 25 million from several companies.

Inspector R.A. Susilkantha told the Daily News that a police team led by him arrested the suspect at Nawala yesterday around 12.30 p.m.

The Bureau has recorded over 250 complaints against the suspect and the Colombo Fort Magistrate has issued 10 warrants for his arrest.

He is also wanted by the Mirihana Special Criminal Investigation Bureau as there had been four cheating complaints against him.

The suspect had used three names to identify himself. The suspect is middle aged and a father of two. He works as a director of a private company in Nawala. He is known as Surendra Jayasinghe alias Suren Perera alias Suren Fernando.