Courtroom directs probe towards businessman:
The Extra Justice of the Peace of Anuradhapura, Kanchana Narthana Abhimani Seneviratne has directed Anuradhapura Vary Forest Officer Sumith Suvaris to provoke authorized proceedings towards a businessman accused of clearing 18 acres within the Mihintale Forest Reserve within the Maradankulama space, and illegally making an attempt to accumulate an extra six acres by setting it on fireplace. The Forest Conservation Division highlighted that each one 4 permits allegedly related to the land are fraudulent.
Consequently, the Extra Justice of the Peace has additional instructed Ranger Suvaris to file a criticism with the Anuradhapura Particular Crime Investigation Division and pursue additional authorized motion.
In the course of the Courtroom proceedings for case quantity B/123/2024, Suvaris reported that the accused businessman had unlawfully cleared and destroyed parts of the land inside the Mihintale Divisional Secretariat Division’s No. 586, Grama Seva Thulane. He additionally introduced proof of the accused having cast paperwork purporting possession. The Vary Forest Officer knowledgeable Courtroom {that a} written inquiry performed by the Director Common of Forest Conservation with the Divisional Secretary of Mihintale revealed inconsistencies within the permits offered by the defendant. Assistant Divisional Secretary M.M.Okay.Chandragupta, on behalf of Divisional Secretary N.B.J.A. Nayaka Bandara, communicated that the Mihintale Divisional Secretariat holds no information or paperwork supporting the licences claimed by the accused.
Additional, the Courtroom was knowledgeable that one of many authorisation papers bore a signature falsely attributed to the previous District Secretary of Anuradhapura, T.Okay.Dasanayake. Sirimevan Dharmasena, the previous Mihintale Divisional Secretary, confirmed in writing to the Director Common of Forest Conservation that the signature was not that of former District Secretary Dasanayake’s.
