{"id":99809,"date":"2020-03-11T01:14:21","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T07:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=99809"},"modified":"2020-03-10T18:09:37","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T01:09:37","slug":"aloysius-ravi-etc-arrest-warrants-and-no-action-against-ranil-maithree-is-law-enforcement-in-sri-lanka-ineffective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/03\/11\/aloysius-ravi-etc-arrest-warrants-and-no-action-against-ranil-maithree-is-law-enforcement-in-sri-lanka-ineffective\/","title":{"rendered":"ALOYSIUS, RAVI  ETC ARREST WARRANTS AND NO ACTION AGAINST RANIL-MAITHREE  &#8211;  IS LAW ENFORCEMENT IN SRI LANKA  INEFFECTIVE?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">By M D P DISSANAYAKE<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>For the time being, we need to forget about arresting Arjun Mahendran through Interpol.\u00a0 Sri Lankan Police have not been able to arrest Aloysius and Ravi within Sri Lanka.\u00a0 As we understand, Aloysius was released on bail.\u00a0 <strong>Then why not arrest those who provided the bail for the release of Aloysius from Jail?\u00a0 Can this team extradite Arjun Mahendran ever?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The time of issuance of the arrest warrant was questionable.\u00a0 They obtained the arrest warrants on Friday 6 March 2020. With 9 March falling on Medin Poya, the culprits had a 3-day long period to make a mockery of law enforcement.\u00a0 Medin Poya celebrates Lord Buddha\u2019s first visit to his father King Suddhodana\u2019s Palace, after enlightenment. Thinking as a modern corollary, hopefully, Ravi is not hiding in his father\u2019s palace??<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By and large law enforcement has come under the spotlight, leaving room for several interpretations.\u00a0 In regard to Easter bombing,\u00a0 the former Defence Secretary and IGP have been arrested and released on bail, but their bosses are freewheeling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The general public demand for justice and fair play.\u00a0 Continuous delay in law enforcement is more than an embarrassment for the new President and Prime Minister.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By M D P DISSANAYAKE For the time being, we need to forget about arresting Arjun Mahendran through Interpol.\u00a0 Sri Lankan Police have not been able to arrest Aloysius and Ravi within Sri Lanka.\u00a0 As we understand, Aloysius was released on bail.\u00a0 Then why not arrest those who provided the bail for the release of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-m-d-p-dissanayake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99809","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=99809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}