Local council member arrested for illegal sand mining in Chillaw
ColomboPage February 19th, 2008Feb 19, Chillaw: A member of the Chillaw local council and nine others were arrested by the police yesterday for defying a Supreme Court’s order to stop sand mining in the Daduru Oya.
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