Sri Lanka, July 7 -- Colombo Additional Magistrate Darshima Premaratne ordered the release on bail of four employees of a sugar company in Kelaniya, who were alleged to have stored over 4,250 tonnes of expired white sugar unfit for human consumption and prepared it for distribution to the market.

The Magistrate, who granted personal bail of one million rupees each to the suspects, who were arrested and presented to the court by the Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA) and the Police, ordered the Consumer Affairs Authority to expedite the investigations.

The Magistrate ordered the sugar warehouse to be sealed until samples of the relevant sugar stock are sent to the Government Analyst and a report is called, and directed the Peliyagoda Polic...