{"id":61282,"date":"2016-12-10T00:46:41","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T07:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=61282"},"modified":"2016-12-10T00:46:41","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T07:46:41","slug":"president-urged-to-take-decision-regarding-igp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/12\/10\/president-urged-to-take-decision-regarding-igp\/","title":{"rendered":"President urged to take decision regarding IGP?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"video-text\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>&#8211; By Yusuf Ariff \u00a0Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"newsContent\">\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s Constitutional Council (CC) has reportedly decided to inquire into the recent behavior of the country\u2019s Inspector General of Police (IGP) and take suitable action, political sources told Ada Derana.<\/p>\n<p>The Constitutional Council, a 10-member constitutional authority tasked with maintaining independent commissions in Sri Lanka \u00a0and monitoring it affairs, convened today and had reportedly discussed IGP Pujitha Jayasundara\u2019s occasional questionable behavior and actions.<\/p>\n<p>However, as the powers to appoint an IGP is vested with the President and the constitutional council has no authority to initiate legal action, the council decided to request the President to take a suitable decision regarding the matter, the source said.<\/p>\n<p>President Maithripala Sirisena had previously stated that the IGP\u2019s recent behavior in public when he received a call to his mobile phone during a event in Ratnapura was questionable and that he would inquire into this.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8211; See more at: http:\/\/www.adaderana.lk\/news\/38178\/president-urged-to-take-decision-regarding-igp-#sthash.ID8MPS6O.dpuf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; By Yusuf Ariff \u00a0Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka\u2019s Constitutional Council (CC) has reportedly decided to inquire into the recent behavior of the country\u2019s Inspector General of Police (IGP) and take suitable action, political sources told Ada Derana. The Constitutional Council, a 10-member constitutional authority tasked with maintaining independent commissions in Sri Lanka \u00a0and monitoring it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61282","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=61282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}