{"id":97262,"date":"2020-01-05T00:40:48","date_gmt":"2020-01-05T06:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=97262"},"modified":"2020-01-04T17:00:04","modified_gmt":"2020-01-05T00:00:04","slug":"ranjan-arrested-for-conspiring-to-inconvenience-the-government-possession-of-an-illegal-firearm-and-118-bullets-pornography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/01\/05\/ranjan-arrested-for-conspiring-to-inconvenience-the-government-possession-of-an-illegal-firearm-and-118-bullets-pornography\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranjan arrested for conspiring to inconvenience the government, possession of an illegal firearm and 118 bullets &#038; pornography"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p> United National Party Parliamentarian Ranjan Ramanayake was arrested this evening by the police for conspiring to inconveniencing the government, possessing an illegal firearm and 118 bullets as well as the possession of pornographic content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Parliamentarian Ranjan Ramanayake\u2019s residence at the Madiwela MP\u2019s housing scheme was searched by the Colombo south crimes division today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A senior police officer said that the search was carried out in line with an investigation underway on a conspiracy to discomfort the government among other allegations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0db8\u0db1\u0dca\u0dad\u0dca\u200d\u0dbb\u0dd3 \u0dbb\u0d82\u0da2\u0db1\u0dca \u0d85\u0dad\u0dca\u0d85\u0da9\u0d82\u0d9c\u0dd4\u0dc0\u0da7 - Hiru News\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V5KVOf0JCPs?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<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0db4\u0dcf\u0dbb\u0dca\u0dbd\u0dd2\u0db8\u0dda\u0db1\u0dca\u0dad\u0dd4 \u0db8\u0db1\u0dca\u0dad\u0dca\u200d\u0dbb\u0dd3 \u0dbb\u0d82\u0da2\u0db1\u0dca \u0dbb\u0dcf\u0db8\u0db1\u0dcf\u0dba\u0d9a \u0d85\u0dad\u0dca\u0d85\u0da9\u0d82\u0d9c\u0dd4\u0dc0\u0da7 - Hiru News\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tXbiDucG8Ew?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 Hiru News United National Party Parliamentarian Ranjan Ramanayake was arrested this evening by the police for conspiring to inconveniencing the government, possessing an illegal firearm and 118 bullets as well as the possession of pornographic content. Parliamentarian Ranjan Ramanayake\u2019s residence at the Madiwela MP\u2019s housing scheme was searched by the Colombo south crimes division [&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-97262","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\/97262","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=97262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}