{"id":141439,"date":"2024-04-17T15:25:12","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T22:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=141439"},"modified":"2024-04-17T15:25:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T22:25:12","slug":"price-gouging-verbal-hostility-arrested-street-food-vendor-granted-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/04\/17\/price-gouging-verbal-hostility-arrested-street-food-vendor-granted-bail\/","title":{"rendered":"Price-gouging &amp; verbal hostility: Arrested street food vendor granted bail"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The owner of a street food eatery in Aluthkade, who was arrested for price-gouging a foreign tourist and behaving in a verbally aggressive manner, has been granted bail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the accused was produced before the court earlier today (17), he was ordered to be released on a cash bail of Rs. 50,000 and surety bail of Rs. 1 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0dc0\u0dd2\u0daf\u0dda\u0dc1\u0dd2\u0d9a\u0dba\u0dd2\u0db1\u0dca \u0dbd\u0d82\u0d9a\u0dcf\u0dc0\u0dda \u0daf\u0dd3 \u0db8\u0dd4\u0dc4\u0dd4\u0dab\u0daf\u0dd9\u0db1 \u0db1\u0ddc\u0db8\u0db1\u0dcf \u0dc0\u0dd0\u0da9\u0d9a\u0dca... \u0dc0\u0dd3\u0da9\u0dd2\u0dba\u0ddd\u0dc0\u0dd9\u0db1\u0dca \u0dc3\u0dd2\u0dba\u0dbd\u0dca\u0dbd \u0d91\u0dc5\u0dd2\u0dba\u0da7...\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eXcdMj81oSs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On Tuesday (16), the police arrested the 51-year-old in question for trying to charge Rs. 1,900 from a foreigner for a Kottu Roti and verbally harassing him when he refused to buy the food item at the quoted price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The arrest came hot on the heels of public outcry on social media after a video of the incident went viral.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The owner of a street food eatery in Aluthkade, who was arrested for price-gouging a foreign tourist and behaving in a verbally aggressive manner, has been granted bail. When the accused was produced before the court earlier today (17), he was ordered to be released on a cash bail of Rs. 50,000 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141439","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=141439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}