{"id":96768,"date":"2019-12-23T16:18:57","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T23:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=96768"},"modified":"2019-12-23T16:18:57","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T23:18:57","slug":"court-fixes-date-of-inquiry-for-rajithas-anticipatory-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/12\/23\/court-fixes-date-of-inquiry-for-rajithas-anticipatory-bail\/","title":{"rendered":"Court fixes date of inquiry for Rajitha\u2019s anticipatory bail"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Ada Derana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Colombo Chief Magistrate\u2019s Court has fixed the 30th December as the date of inquiry for former Minister Rajitha Senaratne\u2019s anticipatory bail application preventing his arrest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senaratne\u2019s second anticipatory bail application was taken up for consideration before the Colombo Chief Magistrate today (23).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the former Minister filed a newly amended affidavit with regard to anticipatory bail application along with new documents related to the relevant incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Overseas travel ban issued on Rajitha (English)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vvp5qroYuOs?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>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Senaratne on Thursday (19) lodged his first anticipatory bail application, stating that the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is planning to arrest him over the white van\u201d media briefing that he held several days before the presidential election last month. The Director of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and several other officials were named as the respondents of this bail application.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the Colombo Chief Magistrate had rejected Senaratne\u2019s anticipatory bail application when it was taken up for consideration Thursday morning (19).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senaratne went on to file another anticipatory bail application on Friday (20) requesting the court to release him on anticipatory bail before the CID takes him into custody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Ada Derana The Colombo Chief Magistrate\u2019s Court has fixed the 30th December as the date of inquiry for former Minister Rajitha Senaratne\u2019s anticipatory bail application preventing his arrest. Senaratne\u2019s second anticipatory bail application was taken up for consideration before the Colombo Chief Magistrate today (23). Meanwhile, the former Minister filed a newly amended affidavit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96768","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=96768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}