The Sri Lanka Police has confirmed that the news circulating that the police had recorded a statement from a young man regarding a 'Was Kaviya' (a type of curse poem) that was widely discussed on social media in recent days is completely false. A spe
Dematagoda Police denied recording a statement from anyone over a "curse virses" circulating on social media. Police were responding to a statement by lawyer Sudath Wickramaratne, who told the media that a client had been summoned to Dematagoda Police and a statement recorded over a song shared on social media as a curse poem. The Officer-in-Charge of Dematagoda Police said the lawyer's claim was entirely false.
Summarised from Asian Mirror
People- Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thera
- Sudath Wickramarathne
- Sudath Wickramaratne
- Sudath Kumararatne
Organisations- Samagi Jana Balawegaya2
- Dematagoda Police2
- Central Criminal Investigation Department
- Criminal Investigation Department
- Samagi Lawyers' Federation
- Dematagoda Police Station
- Sri Lanka Police
- Asian Mirror
Places- Sri Lanka2
- Colombo District
- Colombo
Keywords- curse3
- verses2
- viral2
- questioning
- fabricated
- government
- allegedly
- targeting
- vaskaviya
- summoned
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