Court ordered BBS to evacuate from "Meth Sevana"

[ Thursday, 30 May 2013, 08:55.23 AM GMT +05:30 ]

Galle additional Magistrate Mr.Gunendra Munasinge today ordered the Bodu Bala Sena organization to vacate the "Meth Sevana" religious center at Wanchawala Galle, immediately.

The decision was given after hearing a petition filed by Mr.Batagoda Gamage Asanka Amarasiri. The petition had named BBS members as respondents. The case was filed the 13th February 2013, against the forced appropriation of his property of 3 Acres land and the house by the BBS on the 16th December 2012. Mr.Amarasiri told the media that as the police took no step despite his repeated complaints, he had to come to court . He accused that the BBS had started an educational institute in his property with the Defense secretary as the chief guest on the 9th March, despite the court case filed by him. He further said that the BBS had ignored the court order to halt all the activities in the property during the hearing of the case. Dambulla residents given 24 hours to vacate homes Wednesday, 29 May 2013 The media has reported that several residents living within the Dambulla sacred land area have been asked to vacate their homes with 24 hours. The BBC Sandeshaya has reported that the residents have told the BBC that the order had come from the Matale District officer. Some 35 families have been ordered to vacate their homes to facilitate development work in the area. According to the residents, they had been told that they are living on state land and so will not be compensated. “We have no place to go. We were born, educated and grew up here,” one resident had told the BBC Sinhala service. The resident had said that while they were living on land which has been demarcated as sacred land maintained by the historic Dambulla Temple, they will leave if alternative land was given. However the orders received by the residents their houses will be razed to the ground if they fail to vacate their homes.