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Police siding with racketeers
The Island
|June 11, 2025
The letter titled "Carnage on our Roads" by Dr Justice Chandradasa Nanayakkara, in The Island of 25 May, is timely. Road discipline, which reflects the overall level of discipline in the country has sunk to the lowest levels ever seen. Here is an example.
Last week, while trying to turn into a gated community a motorcycle coming towards me struck my car, which was stationary. The young rider proceeded to scream obscenities and actually attacked me, a senior citizen. His supporters soon arrived in three-wheelers. He then got into a three-wheeler and took off, shouting that he was going to get warded in
This story is from the June 11, 2025 edition of The Island.
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