Damage to Kelaniya Campus property: Two undergrads remanded

Sandasen Marasinghe

COLOMBO: Colombo Chief Magistrate Kusala Sarojini Weerawardana yesterday admonished Kelaniya University undergraduates produced before Court, before she granted 18 of them bail.

She remanded two undergraduates who allegedly caused damages to public property.

The court remanded two undergraduates Pallawala and Dinidu until August 21, who allegedly damaged property in the Kelaniya University premises.

The Court granted Rs 1000 cash bail and Rs. 25,000 personal bail to the undergraduates.

Earlier, Additional Magistrate L. Liyanaarachchi remanded 21 students and issued open warrants for the arrest of 12 other students and produced them before the Court.

When Kiribathgoda Police produced the students before Court, the Chief Magistrate said the students' responsibility was to study well and become good citizens.

She said parents had brought them up with difficulties and did not want to see them engaged in such conflicts and be remanded.

Kiribathgoda Police submitted to Court that the two students' unions of the university, the Students' Union and the Science Faculty Students' Union had clashed over conflict of views on August 8.

Police said these students had been provoked by certain political supporters and thereafter clashed.