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Auna Daily and weekend news editor Chaminda Senaratna has received death threats on 18th 2022 via mobile phone calls, as a reprisal of reporting on alleged illicit assets held by several senior police officers. He had received the said threats on 18th of March, when he was in his office, via phone numbers 0712293495 and 00916282807305. The caller has threatened Senaratna saying that Senaratne had been slinging mud at their superintendent of the police (SP) and they will not let him live more than three weeks. The callers have also told Senaratne that they knew his place of residence, and threatened the safety of his loved ones. Chaminda has made a complaint to the Inspector General of Police about the incident. Subsequently, the Avissawella Magistrate Court has ordered the Kosgama Police to collect the relevant telephone call records.