{"id":94422,"date":"2019-10-28T17:54:32","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T00:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=94422"},"modified":"2019-10-28T17:55:07","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T00:55:07","slug":"probe-into-fowzies-statement-court-orders-video-footage-be-given-to-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/10\/28\/probe-into-fowzies-statement-court-orders-video-footage-be-given-to-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Probe into Fowzie&#8217;s statement: Court orders video footage be given to Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">By Kavindya Perera <\/strong>Courtesy Ceylon Today<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Grandpass Police yesterday (28) informed Colombo Additional Magistrate Neranjana de Silva that they have begun a probe in connection with a recent statement made by Parliamentarian A.H.M. Fowzie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police said that they had begun inquiries into a complaint lodged by the Sinhale Jathika Organisation (SJO).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Police added that in the complaint, the SJO had alleged that Fowzie, while addressing a rally held at Grandpass on 24 October, in support of New Democratic Front Presidential nominee, Minister Sajith Premadasa, had made a remark &#8220;let us defeat Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna Presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa and let us kill him.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police told Magistrate de Silva that in order to facilitate their inquiries, they would need uncensored video footage containing the MP&#8217;s remarks which had been aired by certain television stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Magistrate ordered News Directors of a few electronic media outlets to release uncensored video footage, connected to the incident, to the Police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kavindya Perera Courtesy Ceylon Today Grandpass Police yesterday (28) informed Colombo Additional Magistrate Neranjana de Silva that they have begun a probe in connection with a recent statement made by Parliamentarian A.H.M. Fowzie. Police said that they had begun inquiries into a complaint lodged by the Sinhale Jathika Organisation (SJO). The Police added that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94422","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=94422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}