{"id":98398,"date":"2020-01-29T15:57:23","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T22:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=98398"},"modified":"2020-01-29T15:57:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T22:57:23","slug":"champikas-driver-gives-hour-long-confidential-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/01\/29\/champikas-driver-gives-hour-long-confidential-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"Champika\u2019s driver gives hour-long confidential statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Ada Derana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Former Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka\u2019s driver Thusitha Dilum Kumara has given an hour-long confidential statement to the Colombo Additional Magistrate.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He had provided the confidential statement before Colombo Additional Magistrate Kanchana Neranjana de Silva within the latter\u2019s chamber today (29) while it had lasted for around one hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kumara, who is the driver of parliamentarian Patali Champika Ranawaka, was arrested and remanded over an alleged hit-and-run accident involving the former minister in 2016. He is the second accused in the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was granted bail by the court on January 06, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kumara had previously sought the court\u2019s permission to make a confidential statement before the Colombo Additional Magistrate.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The suspect surrendered before the Colombo Chief Magistrate\u2019s Court on December 24, in connection with an accident that took place in 2016 where a youth was critically injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Ada Derana Former Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka\u2019s driver Thusitha Dilum Kumara has given an hour-long confidential statement to the Colombo Additional Magistrate.&nbsp; He had provided the confidential statement before Colombo Additional Magistrate Kanchana Neranjana de Silva within the latter\u2019s chamber today (29) while it had lasted for around one hour. Kumara, who is the [&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-98398","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\/98398","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=98398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}