{"id":127381,"date":"2022-07-27T14:28:26","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T21:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=127381"},"modified":"2022-07-27T14:28:26","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T21:28:26","slug":"police-release-photographs-of-main-suspects-wanted-over-setting-fire-to-ranils-private-residence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/07\/27\/police-release-photographs-of-main-suspects-wanted-over-setting-fire-to-ranils-private-residence\/","title":{"rendered":"Police release photographs of main suspects wanted over setting fire to Ranil\u2019s private residence"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>he Police released a set of photographs of a group of suspects wanted over the incident of setting fire to President Ranil Wickremesinghe&#8217;s private residence in Colombo on July 9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police said the investigations into the arson attack on the President&#8217;s private residence was being carried out by the Criminal Investigations Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They said the investigators were looking to identify a group of persons identified as the main suspects involved in causing damage and setting fire to the house based on the CCTV footage and the video footage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accordingly, the police released 14 photographs of suspects in order to identify them and take the necessary legal action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The police requested the public to inform the CID to the following phone numbers 071-8594950, 071-8594929 or 011-2422176 through WhatsApp or calls if they have any information about the people in those photographs.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier, the police arrested four suspects arrested over the incident and were remanded till August 10 by Colombo Fort Magistrate&#8217;s Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Wickremesinghe&#8217;s private residence on 5th Lane in Colombo has been set on fire by the protestors after a tense situation erupted between the protestors and security forces on July 9.<strong>(DSB)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bmkltsly13vb.compat.objectstorage.ap-mumbai-1.oraclecloud.com\/cdn.dailymirror.lk\/assets\/uploads\/image_22d873ae43.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror he Police released a set of photographs of a group of suspects wanted over the incident of setting fire to President Ranil Wickremesinghe&#8217;s private residence in Colombo on July 9. Police said the investigations into the arson attack on the President&#8217;s private residence was being carried out by the Criminal Investigations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127381","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=127381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}