{"id":152750,"date":"2025-10-28T15:48:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T22:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=152750"},"modified":"2025-10-28T15:48:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T22:48:34","slug":"female-lawyer-arrested-for-aiding-murder-of-ganemulla-sanjeewa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/10\/28\/female-lawyer-arrested-for-aiding-murder-of-ganemulla-sanjeewa\/","title":{"rendered":"Female lawyer arrested for aiding murder of \u2018Ganemulla Sanjeewa\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>A female lawyer from the Kadawatha area has been arrested for allegedly&nbsp; for providing a copy&nbsp; of the Penal Code for Ishara Sewwandi to conceal the pistol used in the killing of underworld figure Sanjeewa Kumara Samararatne alias \u2018Ganemulla Sanjeewa\u2019, police said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The infamous gang leader known as Ganemulla Sanjeewa\u201d was fatally shot by a gunman disguised as a lawyer in the No. 05 Magistrate\u2019s Court within the Aluthkade Courts Complex (Hulftsdorp) on February 19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2019Ishara Sewwandi\u2019, the fugitive female suspect wanted in connection with the murder and who is suspected to have provided the copy&nbsp; of the Penal Code with the pistol concealed inside to the shooter, was arrested in Nepal on October 14, along with several other suspects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three police teams are currently interrogating six suspects, including \u2018Ishara Sewwandi\u2019, in connection with the murder of underworld figure \u2018Ganemulla Sanjeewa.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is reported that several important details related to Sanjeewa\u2019s murder have been revealed during the questioning of Ishara Sewwandi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana A female lawyer from the Kadawatha area has been arrested for allegedly&nbsp; for providing a copy&nbsp; of the Penal Code for Ishara Sewwandi to conceal the pistol used in the killing of underworld figure Sanjeewa Kumara Samararatne alias \u2018Ganemulla Sanjeewa\u2019, police said.&nbsp; The infamous gang leader known as Ganemulla Sanjeewa\u201d was fatally shot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152750","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=152750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152751,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152750\/revisions\/152751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}