A female attorney-at-law has been arrested for chewing and destroying documents related to a case pending before the Kekirawa District Magistrate’s Court, it was reported.
According to Daily Mirror, the lawyer had destroyed two documents that were included in the court registry in relation to a land case.
The Police stated that the female lawyer who was handling the case proceedings had torn off two documents from the file related to the case and had chewed on them inside the court.
Court officials who were on duty at the archives had notified the court registrar after which the lawyer was taken into custody by the Kekirawa Police.
Police officers on court duty had examined the lawyer during which they had found some pieces of the documents she had destroyed by chewing.
The lawyer will be produced before the Kekirawa Magistrate’s Court today (July 28). (NewsWire)
