{"id":152509,"date":"2025-10-12T15:58:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T22:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=152509"},"modified":"2025-10-12T15:58:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T22:58:34","slug":"police-launch-investigation-against-senior-lawyer-in-mount-lavinia-court-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/10\/12\/police-launch-investigation-against-senior-lawyer-in-mount-lavinia-court-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Police launch investigation against senior lawyer in Mount Lavinia court incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.hirunews.lk\/Data\/News_Images\/202510\/1760208643_8993932_hirunews.jpg\" alt=\"Police+launch+investigation+against+senior+lawyer+in+Mount+Lavinia+court+incident\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Police Headquarters has announced that the Mount Lavinia Headquarters Police have commenced an investigation into a senior lawyer who accompanied the attorney allegedly assaulted by a police officer in the Mount Lavinia Court premises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police Headquarters issued a statement confirming that the investigation targets the senior lawyer for allegedly swearing at and threatening the police officer involved in the incident and using criminal force to obstruct his duty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The police statement provides the following background:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The police officer in question was arrested following a complaint that he assaulted an attorney during an incident that occurred on October 10, 2025, when the lawyer was attempting to remove his car from the Mount Lavinia Court premises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The officer was produced before the court and remanded until October 13, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Mount Lavinia Headquarters Police have since launched an investigation into the senior lawyer who was present with the aggrieved attorney.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The police said that a video recordingshowing the senior lawyer swearing at, threatening, and using criminal force to obstruct the police officer&#8217;s duty has been obtained and submitted to the police station as case material for further investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Statements have been recorded from several individuals present at the court premises at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Mount Lavinia Headquarters Police are conducting further investigations under the supervision of the Senior Superintendent of Police in charge of the Mount Lavinia Division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News Police Headquarters has announced that the Mount Lavinia Headquarters Police have commenced an investigation into a senior lawyer who accompanied the attorney allegedly assaulted by a police officer in the Mount Lavinia Court premises. Police Headquarters issued a statement confirming that the investigation targets the senior lawyer for allegedly swearing at and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152509","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\/152509","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=152509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152510,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152509\/revisions\/152510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}