{"id":20216,"date":"2013-04-17T00:19:19","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T04:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=20216"},"modified":"2013-04-17T06:18:18","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T10:18:18","slug":"mtv-and-mbc-lodge-police-complaint-that-maharaja-group-journalists-face-threat-of-imminent-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=20216","title":{"rendered":"MTV and MBC  Lodge Police Complaint that Maharaja Group Journalists Face  Threat of Imminent Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By <\/p>\n<p>Lashane Cooray<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/MTV041613.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/MTV041613.jpg\" alt=\"MTV041613\" width=\"200\" height=\"160\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-20232\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Police launched an immediate investigation yesterday, following a complaint lodged by the Maharaja Television and Maharaja Broadcasting Corporation (MTV\/MBC), regarding an imminent attack on their journalists.<\/p>\n<p> <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We received information that there is a group plotting to attack our journalists, in either Colombo or Ratmalana.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some of them were named, and were mentioned as being under constant surveillance, while others were cited as being under threat of actual physical violence,&#8221; MTV News Chief, Chevan Daniels, told Ceylon Today.<\/p>\n<p>Slave Island Police were immediately informed, and investigations have already begun, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We requested the police to handle this matter, what with our history,&#8221; he said, citing the attacks on MTV in 2009 and 2010.<br \/>\n<em>COURTESY:CEYLON TODAY<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton20216\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D20216&amp;text=MTV%20and%20MBC%20%20Lodge%20Police%20Complaint%20that%20Maharaja%20Group%20Journalists%20Face%20%20Threat%20of%20Imminent%20Attack&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lashane Cooray Police launched an immediate investigation yesterday, following a complaint lodged by the Maharaja Television and Maharaja Broadcasting Corporation (MTV\/MBC), regarding an imminent attack on their journalists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20216"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20233,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20216\/revisions\/20233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}