ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka police arrested 41 folks, together with two candidates, for violating election guidelines, primarily for unlawful election promotions, police stated.
“The 2 candidates have been from Kalpitiya and Vavuniya areas,” Nihal Thalduwa, Police Media Spokesperson advised reporters.
“Most arrests have been for unlawful election promotions, taking images, tearing up poll papers, distributing cash, and different disturbances to the peaceable voting course of,” he stated.
An election officer was taken off responsibility following an incident the place a voter was not given the proper help within the Kattankudy space.
One other incident was reported from Nallathanniya when two intoxicated individuals have been arrested for harassing a driver of an election official.
A 64 12 months outdated particular person was arrested for tearing a poll paper in an election middle in Wadduwa.
All poll packing containers are being transported to counting facilities presently. Solely individuals with permission are allowed to observe the poll packing containers.
“We had began offering police safety to counting facilities days in the past. The Particular Job Power is in command of the safety of counting facilities.
“We request the general public to keep away from going previous the roadblocks which are in place, and to not go into election facilities intoxicated.” Thalduwa stated.
All cell phones ought to be handed over to authorities earlier than getting into a counting middle as no telephones are allowed inside the premises.
There are 54 counting facilities islandwide being given safety taking hostile climate situations in sure areas into consideration. Sri Lanka Police and the Tri-forces stand prepared to supply assist inside this regard.
Thalduwa acknowledged that the election by far has been peaceable and the arrests that have been made have been primarily owing to unlawful promotions. No acts of violence have been reported, nevertheless, three deaths of officers, brought on by pure causes, have been reported, he additional talked about.
A police officer, and two civil officers on responsibility have thus died owing to well being situations. Postmortems are presently underway for these incidents.
