{"id":154043,"date":"2026-01-06T15:21:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T22:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=154043"},"modified":"2026-01-06T15:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T22:21:12","slug":"npp-mp-accused-of-assault-is-already-serving-suspended-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2026\/01\/06\/npp-mp-accused-of-assault-is-already-serving-suspended-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"NPP MP accused of assault is already serving suspended sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>National People&#8217;s Power (NPP) Parliamentarian Shantha Padmakumara, currently accused of assaulting a police constable, is already serving a suspended prison sentence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) General Secretary Sagara Kariyawasam shared this information during a press conference held in Colombo today (6).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News National People&#8217;s Power (NPP) Parliamentarian Shantha Padmakumara, currently accused of assaulting a police constable, is already serving a suspended prison sentence. Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) General Secretary Sagara Kariyawasam shared this information during a press conference held in Colombo today (6).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jvp-anti-national-activities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154043","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=154043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154044,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154043\/revisions\/154044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}