{"id":122969,"date":"2022-02-22T17:16:56","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T00:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=122969"},"modified":"2022-02-22T17:16:56","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T00:16:56","slug":"police-summons-pushpika-de-silva-over-attack-on-chamudithas-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/02\/22\/police-summons-pushpika-de-silva-over-attack-on-chamudithas-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Police summons Pushpika de Silva over attack on Chamuditha\u2019s house"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Former Mrs. Sri Lanka for Mrs. World\u2019 Pushpika de Silva has been summoned to the Piliyandala Police to record a statement regarding the investigations into the attack on journalist Chamuditha Samarawickrema&#8217;s residence in Piliyandala.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police said Pushpika had been informed&nbsp; to appear before the police at 10.00 am tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They said statement would be recorded from her as she had taken part in an interview conducted by Samarawickrema on his YouTube channel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier, police also recorded a four-hour long statement from Ape Jana Bala party leader Saman Prasanna Perera who had also taken part in an interview with Samarawickrema on his YouTube channel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Journalist Chamuditha&#8217;s house in Piliyandala was attacked with stones and excrement on February 14.(<strong>Darshana<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Sanjeewa<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Balasuriya<\/strong>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former Mrs. Sri Lanka for Mrs. World\u2019 Pushpika de Silva has been summoned to the Piliyandala Police to record a statement regarding the investigations into the attack on journalist Chamuditha Samarawickrema&#8217;s residence in Piliyandala. Police said Pushpika had been informed&nbsp; to appear before the police at 10.00 am tomorrow. They said [&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-122969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122969","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=122969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}