{"id":96865,"date":"2019-12-25T15:08:35","date_gmt":"2019-12-25T22:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=96865"},"modified":"2019-12-25T15:08:35","modified_gmt":"2019-12-25T22:08:35","slug":"cid-officers-visit-rajithas-houses-in-colombo-and-kalutara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/12\/25\/cid-officers-visit-rajithas-houses-in-colombo-and-kalutara\/","title":{"rendered":"CID officers visit Rajitha\u2019s houses in Colombo and Kalutara"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Ada Derana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Officers of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) have reportedly inspected UNP Parliamentarian Dr. Rajitha Senaratne\u2019s residences in Colombo and Kalutara, in order to execute a warrant for the former minister\u2019s arrest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over 24 hours have passed since the Colombo Magistrate\u2019s Court issued a warrant for the arrest of Rajitha Senaratne in connection with the now infamous \u2018white van\u2019 press briefing, however the police are yet to place the MP under arrest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on the instructions of the Attorney General, the CID had obtained an arrest warrant from the court, which had previously imposed an oversea travel ban on the former Health Minister.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two individuals who had participated in the \u2018white van\u2019 press conference along with Dr. Senaratne are currently in remand custody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officers of the CID today visited the MP\u2019s residence in Colombo in order to execute the warrant, however they later left as Dr. Senaratne was not at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0Afterwards the team of CID officers inspected the MP\u2019s house at Hettimulla, Beruwala also to no avail.\u00a0<\/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=\"\u0dc3\u0dd3.\u0d85\u0dba\u0dd2.\u0da9\u0dd3. \u0dba\u0dd9\u0db1\u0dca \u0dbb\u0dcf\u0da2\u0dd2\u0dad \u0dc3\u0ddc\u0dba\u0dcf \u0db1\u0dd2\u0dc0\u0dd9\u0dc3\u0dca \u0d9a\u0dd2\u0dc4\u0dd2\u0db4\u0dba\u0d9a\u0dca \u0db4\u0dbb\u0dd3\u0d9a\u0dca\u0dc2\u0dcf\u0dc0\u0da7..\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Pxk40s8yrfw?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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Ada Derana Officers of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) have reportedly inspected UNP Parliamentarian Dr. Rajitha Senaratne\u2019s residences in Colombo and Kalutara, in order to execute a warrant for the former minister\u2019s arrest. Over 24 hours have passed since the Colombo Magistrate\u2019s Court issued a warrant for the arrest of Rajitha Senaratne in connection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-order","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96865","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=96865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}