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29 March 2024

70-year old priest raped by flower seller

A flower seller has been arrested by police in Sri Lanka for sexually abusing a 70-year-old 'female Buddhist priest. (Supplied)

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A flower seller has been arrested by police in Sri Lanka for sexually abusing a 70-year-old 'sil matha' (female Buddhist priest) near the ancient town of Anuradhapura, police said.

The incident happened on the evening of November 8.
 
On hearing the screams of the ‘sil matha’, neighbours surrounded the temple, caught the suspect and handed him over to the police. The suspect, who is 29 years old, was to be produced in court.

The ‘sil matha’ was taken to Anuradhapura hospital for a medical examination. Police is investigating further.

Exorcist and uncle rape underage girl


An exorcist and an uncle have been accused of raping a schoolgirl aged 13 on two occasions in Sri Lanka, the ‘Lakbima’ has reported.

The principal of the school, where the victim studied, had lodged the complaint against the girl’s uncle and the exorcist.

Sometime at the year end of 2013, when the girl returned home after school, her uncle had entered the room while the girl was undressing and raped her, police said.

At the beginning of the third term of the school in 2014, the exorcist had asked her to come with flowers to his house for a religious ceremony, where he raped her. The exorcist had threatened the girl not to tell anyone, police said.

Smugglers caught with 11kg of gold in underwear

Customs officers at Colombo’s Bandaranaike International Airport have thwarted an attempt by two Sri Lankans, including a woman, to smuggle in gold biscuits worth Rs59 million into the country on November 9.
A customs spokesman said the suspects, who had arrived from Singapore, had hidden gold biscuits in their underwear. 11.8 kg of gold were found in their possession.

The man had 70 gold biscuits in four pieces of underwear that he wore.

"The woman had concealed 48 gold biscuits in her underwear. Investigators said she was wearing four pairs of underwear," he added.