{"id":85074,"date":"2019-01-23T19:38:12","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T01:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=85074"},"modified":"2019-01-23T12:21:38","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T19:21:38","slug":"7-university-students-arrested-for-taking-photos-on-kiralagala-stupa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/01\/23\/7-university-students-arrested-for-taking-photos-on-kiralagala-stupa\/","title":{"rendered":"7 university students arrested for taking photos on Kiralagala stupa"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Seven students from South Eastern University have been arrested for posting photographs of themselves standing on the ruins if ancient Kiralagala stupa, the Police Spokesperson stated.<\/p>\n<p>A group of youths had recently taken photographs of themselves while standing on the ruins of Kiralagala stupa in Horowpathana and posted them on social media.<\/p>\n<p>The Buddhist Information Centre had, yesterday (22), lodged a complaint at the Police Headquarters seeking an investigation into the incident and penalization of the youths responsible for behaving in this manner at an archaeological site.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0d9a\u0dd2\u0dbb\u0dbd\u0dcf\u0d9c\u0dbd \u0db1\u0da7\u0db9\u0dd4\u0db1\u0dca \u0dc3\u0dca\u0dae\u0dd6\u0db4\u0dba \u0db8\u0dad \u0db1\u0dd0\u0d9c \u0da1\u0dcf\u0dba\u0dcf\u0dbb\u0dd6\u0db4 \u0d9c\u0dad\u0dca \u0dc3\u0dbb\u0dc3\u0dc0\u0dd2 \u0dc3\u0dd2\u0dc3\u0dd4\u0db1\u0dca \u0d85\u0dad\u0dca\u0d85\u0da9\u0d82\u0d9c\u0dd4\u0dc0\u0da7\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8FyDE1hAwoc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Ada Derana, the Director General of Archaeology P. B. Mandawala stated that the subject minister has given instructions to strictly enforce the law on the suspects.<\/p>\n<p>The Kiralagala stupa, located in Horowpathana on the Anuradhapura-Trincomalee road, is said to have been built during 4th or 5th century AD.<\/p>\n<p>In an inscription by King Bhatikabhaya Tissa, this stupa is referred to as \u2018Dapathakara Vehera\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Seven students from South Eastern University have been arrested for posting photographs of themselves standing on the ruins if ancient Kiralagala stupa, the Police Spokesperson stated. A group of youths had recently taken photographs of themselves while standing on the ruins of Kiralagala stupa in Horowpathana and posted them on social media. The [&hellip;]<\/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-85074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85074","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=85074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}