{"id":148294,"date":"2025-03-03T17:54:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T00:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=148294"},"modified":"2025-03-03T17:54:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T00:54:29","slug":"naked-man-arrested-for-riding-motorcycle-to-kandy-from-colombo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/03\/03\/naked-man-arrested-for-riding-motorcycle-to-kandy-from-colombo\/","title":{"rendered":"Naked man arrested for riding motorcycle to Kandy from Colombo"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">By Shane Seneviratne Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Colombo, March 03 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; A man was arrested this morning by Kadugannawa police for riding a motorcycle from Colombo to Kandy while naked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police said the 23-year-old man was arrested after a great effort by law enforcement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several police officers observed the man riding the motorcycle along the Kandy-Colombo road and attempted to apprehend him, but none were able to catch him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Kegalle and Mawanella police also pursued the man but were unsuccessful. After alerting the Kadugannawa and Peradeniya police, officers in Kadugannawa managed to stop the motorcycle using roadblocks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The arrested man has been identified as a 23-year-old resident of Ahangama. He is set to be produced&nbsp; before court today, where authorities will seek permission to obtain a mental health evaluation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kadugannawa police are conducting further investigations under the direction of Senior Superintendent of Police for the Kandy Division, Anuruddha Bandaranaike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Shane Seneviratne Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, March 03 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; A man was arrested this morning by Kadugannawa police for riding a motorcycle from Colombo to Kandy while naked. Police said the 23-year-old man was arrested after a great effort by law enforcement. Several police officers observed the man riding the motorcycle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148294","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=148294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}