{"id":69961,"date":"2017-09-22T14:12:46","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T21:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=69961"},"modified":"2017-09-22T14:12:46","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T21:12:46","slug":"bride-is-investigated-for-using-250-children-to-carry-her-two-mile-long-saree-during-her-wedding-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/09\/22\/bride-is-investigated-for-using-250-children-to-carry-her-two-mile-long-saree-during-her-wedding-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Bride is investigated for using 250 children to carry her TWO MILE long saree during her wedding in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0TARIQ TAHIR FOR MAILONLINE<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n
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  • Authorities said violators using students during school hours face 10 years jail<\/strong><\/li>\n
  • The saree is the longest ever worn by a bride in Sri Lanka\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n
  • Students were from school named after a local politician who attended wedding<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    A Sri Lankan couple are under investigation for using hundreds of school children to carry the train of the bride’s saree during a wedding ceremony.<\/p>\n

    About 250 students carried the train of the two-mile long saree worn by the bride, as she and the groom walked down a main road in the centre of the Kandy.<\/p>\n

    The National Child Protection Authority (NCPA) said using students for such ceremonies during school hours was against the law, with violators facing up to 10 years in prison.<\/p>\n

    The saree is the longest ever worn by a bride in Sri Lanka and another 100 students, from the state-owned school, served as flower girls at the wedding.<\/p>\n

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    med after Central Province Chief Minister Sarath Ekanayaka, who was a special guest at the wedding,<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

    ‘We have started an investigation. We are going all out because we don’t want this to become a trend,’ said NCPA Chairman Marini de Livera.<\/p>\n

    ‘What they (the wedding party) did is a violation of child rights,’ de Livera said. ‘Depriving children of education, risking their security and harming their dignity are criminal offences.’<\/p>\n

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    About 250 students of a state-owned school carried the train of the record breaking saree worn by the bride<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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    By\u00a0TARIQ TAHIR FOR MAILONLINE Authorities said violators using students during school hours face 10 years jail The saree is the longest ever worn by a bride in Sri Lanka\u00a0 Students were from school named after a local politician who attended wedding A Sri Lankan couple are under investigation for using hundreds of school children to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69961","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=69961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}