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Police have arrested Mrs. World 2020 winner Caroline Jurie after she allegedly injured another contestant during the Mrs. Sri Lanka beauty pageant on Sunday.
During the ceremony, which was broadcast on national TV, Jurie, who won Mrs. Sri Lanka in 2019 and went on to win the Mrs. World title, took the crown from 2021 winner Pushpika De Silva. Jurie claimed De Silva couldn t win Mrs. Sri Lanka because she was divorced.
The competition organizer and De Silva later confirmed she is still married. De Silva also posted about the incident on Facebook, saying she suffered pain on her skull when the crown was snatched from her head and has been treated for injuries, according to BBC News.
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A bitter row broke out when a beauty queen claimed she was left badly injured when her crown was pulled off her head.
Beauty queen Pushpika De Silva, had just won the title of ‘Mrs Sri Lanka’ when the former winner Caroline Jurie, who is also the reigning Mrs World took her crown back.
The bizarre moment was captured in a video published by the Colombo Gazette.
An issue arose Jurie says in the footage because of a pageant rule that prevents women who have been divorced from winning the title.
‘There is a rule that you have to be married and not divorced, so I am taking my first steps in saying that the crown goes to the first runner-up,’ Jurie tells the audience.
Mrs Sri Lanka Pushpika De Silva has crown stolen over divorce claims
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