{"id":153774,"date":"2025-12-21T15:35:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T22:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=153774"},"modified":"2025-12-21T15:35:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T22:35:04","slug":"probe-launched-after-police-officer-allegedly-attacked-by-group-including-npp-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/12\/21\/probe-launched-after-police-officer-allegedly-attacked-by-group-including-npp-mp\/","title":{"rendered":"Probe launched after police officer allegedly attacked by group including NPP MP"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Colombo, Dec. 21 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; The Kolonna Police Station in Embilipitiya has launched an investigation following allegations that a group, including Ratnapura District National People\u2019s Power (NPP) MP Shantha Padmakumara, had attacked a police officer while he was returning home after completing his duty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The officer, attached to the Suriyakanda Police Station, is currently receiving treatment at the Embilipitiya Hospital for injuries reportedly sustained in the attack on Saturday night (20).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to reports, the officer had recently participated in a cannabis raid conducted by the Suriyakanda Police on a land belonging to the MP\u2019s father-in-law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The officer claimed that the MP and others had arrived in a vehicle, threatened and attacked him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He lodged a complaint with the Kolonna Police and investigations are underway under the direction of the Officer-in-Charge of the Embilipitiya Division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Dec. 21 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; The Kolonna Police Station in Embilipitiya has launched an investigation following allegations that a group, including Ratnapura District National People\u2019s Power (NPP) MP Shantha Padmakumara, had attacked a police officer while he was returning home after completing his duty. The officer, attached to the Suriyakanda [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153774","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=153774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153775,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153774\/revisions\/153775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}