{"id":145157,"date":"2024-10-22T14:39:26","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T21:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=145157"},"modified":"2024-10-22T14:46:56","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T21:46:56","slug":"government-not-ready-to-accept-presidential-committees-report-in-its-entirety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/10\/22\/government-not-ready-to-accept-presidential-committees-report-in-its-entirety\/","title":{"rendered":"Government not ready to accept Presidential Committee\u2019s report in its entirety"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Colombo, October 22 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; The government will not accept the report of the Committee headed by retired Judge A.N.J. De Alwis that probed the Easter Sunday bomb attacks in its entirety as it is politically motivated, Minister Vijitha Herath said today.<\/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=\"Ravi Senaviratne or Shani Abeysekera will not be removed for any reason: Minister\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1hLurm1i9ts?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>He told the weekly media briefing to announce Cabinet decisions that the committee only targeted former Senior Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Ravi Seneviratne and former CID Director Shani Abeysekara after they joined the National People\u2019s Power\u2019s (NPP&#8217;s) Retired Police Forum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the NPP&#8217;s Retired Police Forum was formed on June 09, 2024 and the said committee was appointed on June 12, 2024, just three days after the Retired Police Forum was formed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Minister said the committee was expected to submit its report within three months, on September 15, just before the Presidential Election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, October 22 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; The government will not accept the report of the Committee headed by retired Judge A.N.J. De Alwis that probed the Easter Sunday bomb attacks in its entirety as it is politically motivated, Minister Vijitha Herath said today. He told the weekly media briefing to announce [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[211,156,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-easter-attack-probe","category-law-order","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145157","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=145157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}