{"id":134036,"date":"2023-04-28T14:10:13","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T21:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=134036"},"modified":"2023-04-28T14:10:13","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T21:10:13","slug":"arson-attack-on-presidents-private-residence-j-sri-ranga-named-as-a-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/04\/28\/arson-attack-on-presidents-private-residence-j-sri-ranga-named-as-a-suspect\/","title":{"rendered":"Arson attack on President\u2019s private residence: J. Sri Ranga named as a suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) today named former Parliamentarian J. Sri Ranga as a suspect regarding&nbsp;the investigations over the incident of setting fire to President Ranil Wickremesinghe&#8217;s private residence in Colombo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accordingly, Colombo Fort Magistrate Thilina Gamage issued an order directing the Prison Authorities to produce J. Sri Ranga before Court on May 3.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former MP J. Sri Ranga is currently in remand custody for allegedly influencing the witnesses of a fatal traffic accident in Vavuniya in 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A group of protesters had torched President Ranil Wickremesinghe&#8217;s private residence on July 9, last year causing extensive damages to the property.<strong>(Lakmal Sooriyagoda)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) today named former Parliamentarian J. Sri Ranga as a suspect regarding&nbsp;the investigations over the incident of setting fire to President Ranil Wickremesinghe&#8217;s private residence in Colombo. Accordingly, Colombo Fort Magistrate Thilina Gamage issued an order directing the Prison Authorities to produce J. Sri Ranga before Court [&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-134036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134036","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=134036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}