SLFP Walapane organiser and former Chairman of the Walapane Pradeshiya Sabha Jagath Samarahewa was sentenced to 12-year imprisonment by the Nuwara Eliya Magistrate Court today after he was found guilty of misusing state vehicles in 2004.

Magistrate S.U.D. Karaliyadda sentenced the 60-year-old Jagath Samarahewa and another to a 10-year imprisonment over the misuse of state vehicles while the former chairman was sentenced to another two years for illegal possession of a fire arm. (Shelton Hettiarachchi)