{"id":1602,"date":"2017-07-13T05:37:52","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T05:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=1602"},"modified":"2017-07-13T05:37:52","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T05:37:52","slug":"sri-lanka-police-arrest-senior-navy-officer-for-disappearances-of-youths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/sri-lanka-police-arrest-senior-navy-officer-for-disappearances-of-youths\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka police arrest senior Navy officer for disappearances of youths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Criminal Investigation department (CID) of Sri Lanka Police today arrested a senior Navy officer in connection with the disappearance of 11 youths who had been abducted in Colombo and surrounding areas in 2008 and 2009.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The CID arrested Navy Commodore DKP Dassanayake this evening after interrogation him while he was receiving treatment at Welisara Navy Hospital.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The former Navy Spokesman was arrested on charges of assisting and issuing instructions pertaining to the disappearances. He is to be produced before the Colombo Fort Magistrate&#8217;s Court.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Three other naval officers were also arrested in March this year in connection with the abduction of the youth including six international school students and five university students in 2008.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The young boys have been abducted from Kotahena and Dehiwala areas. However, it is not known yet whether the abducted youth are still living or dead.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Colombo Fort Magistrate and Additional District Judge Lanka Jayaratne yesterday also ordered to arrest a Lieutenant Commander of the Navy who was allegedly involved in the abduction of the youth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Page<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Criminal Investigation department (CID) of Sri Lanka Police today arrested a senior Navy&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602","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=1602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}