{"id":62906,"date":"2017-01-31T23:11:19","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T05:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=62906"},"modified":"2017-01-31T16:10:55","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T23:10:55","slug":"astrologer-vijitha-rohana-wijemuni-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/01\/31\/astrologer-vijitha-rohana-wijemuni-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"Astrologer Vijitha Rohana Wijemuni arrested for allegedly misleading the public by making false predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Courtesy\u00a0adaderana<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n<p>The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) has arrested Astrologer Vijitha Rohana Wijemuni.<\/p>\n<p>He has been <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>arrested for allegedly misleading the public by making false predictions<\/strong><\/span> and is expected to be produced before court today (31), police said.<\/p>\n<p>The former Sri Lankan sailor, who had attacked visiting Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi with a rifle butt in 1987, was accused of making an astrological prediction about President Maithripala Sirisena. &#8211; See more at:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.adaderana.lk\/news\/38891\/astrologer-vijitha-rohana-arrested-by-cid#sthash.1LaB1otS.dpuf<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy\u00a0adaderana The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) has arrested Astrologer Vijitha Rohana Wijemuni. He has been arrested for allegedly misleading the public by making false predictions and is expected to be produced before court today (31), police said. The former Sri Lankan sailor, who had attacked visiting Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi with a rifle butt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62906","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=62906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}