{"id":11113,"date":"2021-08-03T05:57:58","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T05:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=11113"},"modified":"2021-08-03T05:58:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T05:58:00","slug":"three-domestic-workers-employed-at-rishads-house-now-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/three-domestic-workers-employed-at-rishads-house-now-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Three domestic workers employed at Rishad\u2019s house now dead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three domestic workers who were employed at the residence of former Minister Rishad Bathiudeen are now dead, the Police revealed yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police Spokesman, Senior Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Ajith Rohana said that since 2009 a total of 11 women had been employed at the residence of the former Minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All the women were from Dayagama and had been introduced to the Minister\u2019s family by a broker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Police said that of the 11 women, three are now dead. Apart from the 16-year-old girl, another woman died of cancer while another woman had committed suicide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DIG Ajith Rohana said that statements have been recorded from the other women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said that of the remaining 8 women, two claimed they were sexually abused by the MP\u2019s brother-in-law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The body of the 16-year-old girl who died while being employed at the residence of former Minister Rishad Bathiudeen, was exhumed on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The body was exhumed at the Dayagama Cemetery to conduct a second post-mortem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Colombo Magistrates\u2019 Court had issued an order to exhume the body to conduct the fresh post-mortem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The court also ordered the wife of the former Minister, his father-in-law and brother-in-law and a broker to be remanded until 9th August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three domestic workers who were employed at the residence of former Minister Rishad Bathiudeen&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11115,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11113\/revisions\/11115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}