{"id":148591,"date":"2025-03-20T15:58:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T22:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=148591"},"modified":"2025-03-20T15:58:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T22:58:27","slug":"deshabandu-tennakoon-remanded-until-april-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/03\/20\/deshabandu-tennakoon-remanded-until-april-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Deshabandu Tennakoon remanded until April 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Former IGP Deshabandu Tennakoon has been remanded until April 3 after being produced before the Matara Magistrate&#8217;s Court today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Tennakoon, who had an open warrant issued for his arrest, surrendered to the court yesterday morning accompanied by a group of lawyers after being in hiding for 20 days. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On February 27, the court ordered the arrest of Tennakoon and seven others on charges of conspiring to commit murder in a shooting incident in Weligama on December 31, 2023. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Court of Appeal recently dismissed Tennakoon&#8217;s writ petition seeking to prevent the arrest order&#8217;s execution. Public Security Minister Ananda Wijepala stated that Tennakoon surrendered when Criminal Investigation Department officers arrived at the court to seek an order to ban his activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hiru News Former IGP Deshabandu Tennakoon has been remanded until April 3 after being produced before the Matara Magistrate&#8217;s Court today. Tennakoon, who had an open warrant issued for his arrest, surrendered to the court yesterday morning accompanied by a group of lawyers after being in hiding for 20 days. On February 27, the court [&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-148591","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\/148591","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=148591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}