{"id":137206,"date":"2023-09-23T17:00:55","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T00:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=137206"},"modified":"2023-09-23T17:00:55","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T00:00:55","slug":"five-arrested-over-supermarket-staff-brutally-assaulting-female","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/09\/23\/five-arrested-over-supermarket-staff-brutally-assaulting-female\/","title":{"rendered":"Five arrested over supermarket staff brutally assaulting female"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>At least five persons, a group of staff members of a leading supermarket outlet in Borella were arrested over an incident of brutally assaulting a female customer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police launched investigations after a video showing a group of staff members from a&nbsp;supermarket outlet brutally assaulting a female customer went viral on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Initially, it was reported that the incident had occurred in the Hanwella area. However, later it was revealed that the incident had been at an outlet in Borella.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CCTV footage captured multiple male and female employees from the outlet brutally assaulting the customer, allegedly in response to suspected theft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The incident reportedly took place on September 18. However, no complaints had been lodged untill the video went viral on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Borella Police are investigating into the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier, the management of the supermarket also issued a media statement stating that they will take stern action against those responsible.<strong>(DSB)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror At least five persons, a group of staff members of a leading supermarket outlet in Borella were arrested over an incident of brutally assaulting a female customer. Police launched investigations after a video showing a group of staff members from a&nbsp;supermarket outlet brutally assaulting a female customer went viral on social [&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-137206","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\/137206","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=137206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}