{"id":100189,"date":"2020-03-21T14:54:33","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T21:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=100189"},"modified":"2020-03-21T14:58:06","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T21:58:06","slug":"police-arrest-130-over-curfew-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/03\/21\/police-arrest-130-over-curfew-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest 180 over curfew violations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Police Media Division stated that 180 individuals have been arrested over violating the curfew within the time period between 6 pm yesterday (20) and 9 pm today (21).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The government yesterday (20) imposed an island-wide curfew from 6.00 pm until 6.00 am on Monday (23).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The curfew was enforced as a means to minimize public gatherings in order to contain the spread of the deadly coronavirus within the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All individuals were advised to remain indoors during the time of the curfew and to maintain a minimum distance of each other. Authorities have warned that public congregation can lead to the further spread of the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a preventive measure, the government also banned all leisure trips, pilgrimages, and tours within the country until further notice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A total of 130 persons who had violated curfew have been arrested during operations across 31 police divisions, says Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police Ajith Rohana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ten motorcycles and a three-wheeler have been seized during the operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of these arrests were made in Dambulla, Bandarawela, Haputale, Tangalle, Katunayake, Walasmulla, Nallathanniya and Ampara areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nine persons who had been travelling in two three-wheelers and three motorcycles were taken into custody in Dambulla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the meantime, 8 persons were arrested for having a party during curfew hours, while another person was arrested in Haputale for keeping his restaurant open during the night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two individuals who were taken into custody in Walasmulla area had been transporting sand in two tipper trucks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A motorcyclist and the pillion rider were arrested in Nallathanniya area and three others were detained by the police while loitering in Katunayake and Ampara areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, another motorcyclist who had been driving under the influence of alcohol was nabbed in Tangalle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The government yesterday (20) imposed an island-wide curfew from 6.00 pm until 6.00 am on Monday (23).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The curfew was enforced as a means to minimize public gatherings in order to contain the spread of the deadly coronavirus within the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All individuals were advised to remain indoors during the time of the curfew and to maintain a minimum distance of among each other. Authorities have warned that public congregation can lead to the further spread of the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a preventive measure, the government also banned all leisure trips, pilgrimages and tours within the country until further notice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Courtesy Adaderana Police Media Division stated that 180 individuals have been arrested over violating the curfew within the time period between 6 pm yesterday (20) and 9 pm today (21). The government yesterday (20) imposed an island-wide curfew from 6.00 pm until 6.00 am on Monday (23). The curfew was enforced as a means to […]<\/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-100189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100189","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=100189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}