{"id":8898,"date":"2020-06-11T05:29:06","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T05:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=8898"},"modified":"2020-06-11T05:29:06","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T05:29:06","slug":"rajitha-senaratne-granted-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/rajitha-senaratne-granted-bail\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajitha Senaratne granted bail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Former Parliamentarian Rajitha Senaratne, who was arrested by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) on 13 May and remanded, was granted bail yesterday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He was arrested over a press conference hosted by him prior to the Presidential election last November.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">During the Presidential election campaign, Senaratane had brought before the media two men said to be drivers of a \u2018white van\u2019 used for abductions during the former Rajapaksa regime.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Following the press conference, in December 2019, the Attorney General instructed the Criminal Investigations Department to arrest Senaratne in connection to the incident.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Rajitha Senaratne, who was later arrested and remanded, was granted bail in December 2019 by the Colombo Chief Magistrate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">However, the Attorney General in January 2020 filed a revised application in court against the court order to grant bail to Senaratne.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Parliamentarian Rajitha Senaratne, who was arrested by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8899,"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-8898","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\/8898","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=8898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}