{"id":138904,"date":"2023-12-12T15:46:33","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T22:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=138904"},"modified":"2023-12-12T15:46:33","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T22:46:33","slug":"controversial-monk-arrested-over-his-disrespectful-behaviour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/12\/12\/controversial-monk-arrested-over-his-disrespectful-behaviour\/","title":{"rendered":"Controversial monk arrested over his disrespectful behaviour"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/adaderanaenglish.s3.amazonaws.com\/1702394193-visha-buddha-monk-arrested-l.jpg\" alt=\"Controversial monk arrested over his disrespectful behaviour\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The police have arrested a saffron-robed monk called \u2018Vishwa Buddha\u2019 for behaving in a manner offensive to Buddhism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 34-year-old, who is originally from Ratnapura, was taken into custody in the area of Kalagedihena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the arrestee is slated to be produced before the Colombo Magistrate\u2019s Court tomorrow (Dec.13), the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is conducting further investigations into the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The police have arrested a saffron-robed monk called \u2018Vishwa Buddha\u2019 for behaving in a manner offensive to Buddhism. The 34-year-old, who is originally from Ratnapura, was taken into custody in the area of Kalagedihena. While the arrestee is slated to be produced before the Colombo Magistrate\u2019s Court tomorrow (Dec.13), the Criminal Investigation Department [&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-138904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138904","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=138904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}