Reigning Mrs World Caroline Jurie, forcibly removes the Mrs Sri Lanka winner Pushpika De Silva's crown as Jurie declared that the winner was ineligible because she was divorced, during the Mrs Sri Lanka pageant, in Colombo, Sri Lanka April 4, 2021. - Reuters
COLOMBO (AFP): Colombo police on Thursday (April 8) arrested the current 'Mrs World' on charges of assault over an on-stage fracas in which she pulled the crown off the head of the new 'Mrs Sri Lanka'.
Caroline Jurie yanked the crown off Pushpika de Silva minutes after she was declared 'Mrs Sri Lanka 2020' in a Sunday gala at Colombo's Nelum Pokuna theatre.
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