{"id":98286,"date":"2020-01-26T16:36:56","date_gmt":"2020-01-26T23:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=98286"},"modified":"2020-01-26T16:36:56","modified_gmt":"2020-01-26T23:36:56","slug":"ranjangate-scandal-speaker-to-summon-ag-following-requests-by-cc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/01\/26\/ranjangate-scandal-speaker-to-summon-ag-following-requests-by-cc\/","title":{"rendered":"RANJANGATE SCANDAL &#8211; Speaker to summon AG following requests by CC"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">Yohan Perera <\/strong>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Speaker Karu Jayasuriya is to summon Attorney General Dappula de Levera following a decision made by the Constitutional Council (CC) over the directive he had given to arrest High Court Judge Gihan Pilapitiya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A statement from the Parliament Media Unit said some members of CC were of the opinion that the AG\u2019s directive to arrest a judge would result in people losing their faith in the Sri Lankan Judiciary.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yohan Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror Speaker Karu Jayasuriya is to summon Attorney General Dappula de Levera following a decision made by the Constitutional Council (CC) over the directive he had given to arrest High Court Judge Gihan Pilapitiya. A statement from the Parliament Media Unit said some members of CC were of the opinion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ranjangate-scandal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98286","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=98286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}