{"id":69583,"date":"2017-09-08T13:29:52","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T20:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=69583"},"modified":"2017-09-08T13:29:52","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T20:29:52","slug":"even-first-lady-could-be-sued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/09\/08\/even-first-lady-could-be-sued\/","title":{"rendered":"Even First Lady could be sued"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Chamil Rupasinghe\u00a0Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa today said even the current First Lady could be sued as she was seen distributing \u2018Sil Redi\u2019 along with the President a few days ago.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to journalists in Kandy, Mr. Rajapaksa said he would visit former president\u2019s secretary Lalith Weeratunga who was sentenced to three years rigorous imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p>Mr.Weeratunga was found guilty of misappropriating Rs.600 million belonging to the TRC and using it to distribute \u2018Sil Redi\u2019 during the 2015 presidential election campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chamil Rupasinghe\u00a0Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa today said even the current First Lady could be sued as she was seen distributing \u2018Sil Redi\u2019 along with the President a few days ago. Speaking to journalists in Kandy, Mr. Rajapaksa said he would visit former president\u2019s secretary Lalith Weeratunga who was sentenced to three [&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-69583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69583","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=69583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}