{"id":117359,"date":"2021-08-22T16:06:08","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T23:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=117359"},"modified":"2021-08-22T16:06:08","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T23:06:08","slug":"rishad-accused-of-threatening-a-prison-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/08\/22\/rishad-accused-of-threatening-a-prison-doctor\/","title":{"rendered":"Rishad accused of threatening a prison doctor"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>MP Rishad Bathiudeen is once again under the spotlight after a doctor serving at the Magazine Prison, where the parliamentarian is remanded, accused him of levelling threats against his life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Colombo Crimes Division (CCD)&nbsp;launched investigations into the incident based on a complaint filed by the relevant doctor with the Borella Police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The doctor had lodged the complaint after informing the chief medical officer and a senior officer at the prison both verbally and in writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the complaint, MP Bathiudeen had obstructed the duties of the doctor while he was treating an inmate on the 15th of August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reportedly, doctor, who asked MP Bathiudeen to wait outside for his turn, has been told that his service is not required since the parliamentarian is capable of calling a doctor acquaintance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then the former minister has allegedly threatened the doctor, saying that he can have him transferred while also threatening to end the doctor\u2019s life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He had alleged stated that he has parliamentary privileges and is treated well by both Government and the Opposition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The threat has also extended to the point that the lawmaker had purportedly asked the doctor to find a good place to hide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reportedly, the investigating officers recorded statements from the relevant doctor, who was summoned to the CCD this evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the meantime, a special police team of the CCD visited the Magazine Prison today for inspection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana MP Rishad Bathiudeen is once again under the spotlight after a doctor serving at the Magazine Prison, where the parliamentarian is remanded, accused him of levelling threats against his life. The Colombo Crimes Division (CCD)&nbsp;launched investigations into the incident based on a complaint filed by the relevant doctor with the Borella Police. 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":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117359","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=117359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}