{"id":101122,"date":"2020-04-14T16:35:14","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T23:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=101122"},"modified":"2020-04-14T16:35:14","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T23:35:14","slug":"ranjan-ramanayake-remanded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/04\/14\/ranjan-ramanayake-remanded\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranjan Ramanayake remanded"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Former MP Ranjan Ramanayake has been remanded until April 20 by the Gangodawila Magistrate\u2019s Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The former deputy minister was arrested last evening (13) on charges of violating curfew laws, abetting the violation of curfew laws and obstructing police officers in the execution of their duties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A person from Piliyandala had arrived at Madiwela Parliament Members\u2019 Housing Complex and informed the police officers on duty that he intends to meet former MP Ramanayake.&nbsp;<\/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=\"\u0dbb\u0db1\u0dca\u0da2\u0db1\u0dca \u0dbb\u0dcf\u0db8\u0db1\u0dcf\u0dba\u0d9a \u0db1\u0dd4\u0d9c\u0dda\u0d9c\u0ddc\u0da9 \u0db8\u0dc4\u0dda\u0dc3\u0dca\u0dad\u0dca\u200d\u0dbb\u0dcf\u0dad\u0dca \u0d85\u0db0\u0dd2\u0d9a\u0dbb\u0dab\u0dba\u0da7 \u0d9c\u0dd9\u0db1 \u0d86 \u0d85\u0dba\u0dd4\u0dbb\u0dd4...\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zKm1tTBlUIc?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>As the said person did not possess a valid curfew permit, the officers had made an inquiry into him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Ramanayake who arrived at the scene had attempted to bring the person into the Housing Complex by threatening and obstructing the officers from carrying out their duties, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Subsequently, the former MP and his visitor had been arrested by the Mirihana Police at the former\u2019s house and taken to the Mirihana Police Station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ramanayake was produced before the Gangodawila Magistrate\u2019s Court today (14) where he was ordered remanded until April 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Former MP Ranjan Ramanayake has been remanded until April 20 by the Gangodawila Magistrate\u2019s Court. The former deputy minister was arrested last evening (13) on charges of violating curfew laws, abetting the violation of curfew laws and obstructing police officers in the execution of their duties. A person from Piliyandala had arrived at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ranjangate-scandal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101122","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=101122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}