{"id":116327,"date":"2021-07-20T16:18:52","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T23:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=116327"},"modified":"2021-07-20T16:18:52","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T23:18:52","slug":"two-special-police-teams-probe-girls-death-at-bathiudeens-residence-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/07\/20\/two-special-police-teams-probe-girls-death-at-bathiudeens-residence-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Two special police teams probe girl\u2019s death at Bathiudeen\u2019s residence: Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Two special police teams have been deployed to investigate into the death of a 16-year-old girl while working at former Minister Rishad Bathiudeen\u2019s residence, Public Security Minister Sarath Weerasekara said today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He told Parliament that investigations were continuing and officials had visited the girl&#8217;s residence for further investigations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Immediate action will be taken against those responsible,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said this while responding to questions raised by JVP MP Anura Kumara Dissanayake and SJB MP Mano Ganeshan on the progress of the investigations into the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Minister said the JMO had confirmed that the girl had been subject to repeated sexual harassment.<em><strong>(Ajith Siriwardana and Yohan Perera)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror Two special police teams have been deployed to investigate into the death of a 16-year-old girl while working at former Minister Rishad Bathiudeen\u2019s residence, Public Security Minister Sarath Weerasekara said today. He told Parliament that investigations were continuing and officials had visited the girl&#8217;s residence for further investigations. Immediate action will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116327","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=116327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}