{"id":127443,"date":"2022-07-29T14:44:36","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T21:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=127443"},"modified":"2022-07-29T14:44:36","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T21:44:36","slug":"the-suspect-who-stole-the-presidents-official-flag-surrenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/07\/29\/the-suspect-who-stole-the-presidents-official-flag-surrenders\/","title":{"rendered":"The suspect who stole the President&#8217;s official flag surrenders"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Cortesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The suspect who stole the President&#8217;s official flag from the Presidents House on the 9th of July and used the flag as a bed sheet has been arrested.The suspect who was arrested for stealing the President&#8217;s official flag has been identified as Udeni Kaluthanthri, a former SJB trade union leader.&amp;nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The person who posted a video on social media using the President&#8217;s official flag as a bed sheet has surrendered to the police through a lawyer this morning (29).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The suspect, Udeni Kalutantri, is a port security officer and the former president of the Samagi Jana Balaweya Port Trade Union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Police Media Spokesman says that he will be questioned regarding the incident and that legal action will be taken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The flag was stolen by this suspect when he entered the Fort President&#8217;s House on the 9th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cortesy Hiru News The suspect who stole the President&#8217;s official flag from the Presidents House on the 9th of July and used the flag as a bed sheet has been arrested.The suspect who was arrested for stealing the President&#8217;s official flag has been identified as Udeni Kaluthanthri, a former SJB trade union leader.&amp;nbsp; The person [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127443","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=127443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}