{"id":100172,"date":"2020-03-20T15:41:05","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T22:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=100172"},"modified":"2020-03-20T15:41:05","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T22:41:05","slug":"dambulla-mayor-arrested-for-organising-bicycle-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/03\/20\/dambulla-mayor-arrested-for-organising-bicycle-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Dambulla Mayor arrested for organising bicycle race"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Mayor of Dambulla and another individual have been arrested in connection with organising and participating in a bicycle race, despite a ban on such events and large gatherings due to the Covid-19 outbreak, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0db6\u0dba\u0dd2\u0dc3\u0dd2\u0d9a\u0dbd\u0dca \u0dad\u0dbb\u0d9f\u0dba\u0d9a\u0dca \u0dc3\u0d82\u0dc0\u0dd2\u0db0\u0dcf\u0db1\u0dba \u0d9a\u0dc5  \u0daf\u0d94\u0dd4\u0dbd\u0dca\u0dbd \u0db1\u0d9c\u0dbb\u0dcf\u0db0\u0dd2\u0db4\u0dad\u0dd2 \u0d85\u0dad\u0dca\u0d85\u0da9\u0d82\u0d9c\u0dd4\u0dc0\u0da7...\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YOdizHdzRJs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The bicycle race had commenced in the Dambulla town yesterday (19) morning while the start of the race had been signaled by Dambulla Mayor Jaliya Opatha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DIG Ajith Rohana told reporters yesterday that the relevant incident will be investigated after it was reported by media and on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accordingly the Mayor of Dambulla and one of the organisers of the event were arrested today by Dambulla Police. They were produced at court after recording their statements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dambulla District Magistrates Court ordered the suspects released on bail. Accordingly they were released on two personal bonds of Rs 1 million each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dambulla Police is conducting further investigations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Mayor of Dambulla and another individual have been arrested in connection with organising and participating in a bicycle race, despite a ban on such events and large gatherings due to the Covid-19 outbreak, police said. The bicycle race had commenced in the Dambulla town yesterday (19) morning while the start of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}