{"id":96640,"date":"2019-12-19T14:54:03","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T21:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=96640"},"modified":"2019-12-19T14:54:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T21:54:03","slug":"man-embroiled-in-garnier-controversy-arrested-for-attacking-photographer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/12\/19\/man-embroiled-in-garnier-controversy-arrested-for-attacking-photographer\/","title":{"rendered":"Man embroiled in Garnier controversy arrested for attacking photographer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Island<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>\n\nDecember 19, 2019, 9:54 pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.island.lk\/modules\/modPublication\/article_title_images\/2156868601man.gif\" alt=\"article_image\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The police yesterday arrested a person for assaulting a photographer outside the Fort Magistrate court as UNP MP Patali Champika Ranawaka was about to be brought out of the court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The man wearing a blue T-shirt went berserk alleging that the media caused problems to their minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The police arrested him. Later he was identified as Manjula Perera, who recently introduced himself to the media outside the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) as a representative of Swiss Embassy employee Garnia Barister Francis now in custody over false claim of being abducted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Manjula Perera was identified as a son of UNP Gampaha District organizer Bevan Perera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNP lawmakers and other party supporters at the Fort Magistrate court premises declared that Manjula Perera was not with them. (SF)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Island December 19, 2019, 9:54 pm The police yesterday arrested a person for assaulting a photographer outside the Fort Magistrate court as UNP MP Patali Champika Ranawaka was about to be brought out of the court. The man wearing a blue T-shirt went berserk alleging that the media caused problems to their minister. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96640","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=96640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}