{"id":133994,"date":"2023-04-27T14:11:35","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T21:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=133994"},"modified":"2023-04-27T14:11:35","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T21:11:35","slug":"court-deems-2020-mahara-prison-riot-shooting-deaths-a-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/04\/27\/court-deems-2020-mahara-prison-riot-shooting-deaths-a-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Court deems 2020 Mahara Prison riot shooting deaths a \u2018crime\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Welisara Magistrate Thusitha Dhammika has deemed the deaths of the 11 inmates at the Mahara Prison, who were shot dead during a riot that erupted in 2020, a \u2018crime\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The magistrate mentioned this on Thursday, delivering the verdict of the magisterial inquest on the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He, thereby, ordered the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to immediately arrest the prison officers who were involved in the shooting and to produce them before the court without delay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Welisara Magistrate Thusitha Dhammika has deemed the deaths of the 11 inmates at the Mahara Prison, who were shot dead during a riot that erupted in 2020, a \u2018crime\u2019. The magistrate mentioned this on Thursday, delivering the verdict of the magisterial inquest on the incident. He, thereby, ordered the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) [&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-133994","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\/133994","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=133994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}