{"id":131317,"date":"2023-01-12T16:36:41","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T23:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=131317"},"modified":"2023-01-12T16:36:41","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T23:36:41","slug":"adarsha-karandana-granted-bail-for-alleged-sextortion-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/01\/12\/adarsha-karandana-granted-bail-for-alleged-sextortion-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Adarsha Karandana granted bail for alleged sextortion charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Adarsha Karandana arrested for allegedly blackmailing former Parliamentarian Prof. Ashu Marasinghe after threatening to post sexually-explicit videos on websites was ordered to be released on bail by Colombo Chief Magistrate&#8217;s Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Colombo Chief Magistrate Prasanna Alwis ordered Adarsha Karandana to be released on two sureties of Rs.500,000 each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adarsha Karandana was arrested by the Police Cyber Crimes Division over a complaint lodged by Prof. Ashu Marasinghe alleging that she threatened to upload&nbsp; sexually-explicit videos if he fails to pay up a sum of Rs 100 million. (LAKMAL SOORIYAGODA)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror Adarsha Karandana arrested for allegedly blackmailing former Parliamentarian Prof. Ashu Marasinghe after threatening to post sexually-explicit videos on websites was ordered to be released on bail by Colombo Chief Magistrate&#8217;s Court. Colombo Chief Magistrate Prasanna Alwis ordered Adarsha Karandana to be released on two sureties of Rs.500,000 each. Adarsha Karandana was [&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-131317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131317","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=131317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}