{"id":37627,"date":"2015-01-21T22:48:10","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T03:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=37627"},"modified":"2015-01-21T22:48:10","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T03:48:10","slug":"unp-parliamentarian-palitha-thewarapperuma-who-assaulted-upfa-pradeshiya-sabha-councillor-murugan-pushpakumaran-surrenders-to-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=37627","title":{"rendered":"UNP Parliamentarian Palitha Thewarapperuma who Assaulted UPFA Pradeshiya Sabha Councillor Murugan Pushpakumaran Surrenders to Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by Madura Ranwala<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>UNP MP Palitha Thewarapperuma being taken to Fort Magistrate\u2019s court after surrendering to police. The minister came in with right leg covered by plaster claiming that he had had a fall (pic by U.K. Abeyratne)<\/p>\n<p>The Colombo Crime Division (CCD) yesterday took into custody Kalutara district UNP parliamentarian Palitha Thewapperuma when he surrendered over an incident where a UPFA local government politician was assaulted in the Agalawatte area, Kalutara last Sunday (18).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Police spokesman SSP Ajith Rohana said that the MP would be charged with assault and unlawful assembly and produced before court yesterday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Thevapperuma is alleged to have assaulted UPFA Pradeshiya Sabha member Murugan Pushpakumara and forced him to kneel down on the road.<\/p>\n<p>President Maithripala Sirisena ordered the police on Tuesday to take immediate action over the incident following which the MP surrendered.<\/p>\n<p>Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE) strongly condemned the attack on Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) office at Agalawatte and the assault of a Pradeshiya Sabha member by the parliamentarian and his supporters.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred, when MP Thewarapperuma arrived with a group of supporters had disrupted an event meant to mark the opening of the SLFP office at Agalawatte.<\/p>\n<p>Former Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe (UPFA), who represents the Kalutara District, said that the group led by UNP MP Thewarapperuma had also attempted to remove the decorations at the office and also thrown rotten eggs at the place.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nCourtesy:The Island<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton37627\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D37627&amp;text=UNP%20Parliamentarian%20Palitha%20Thewarapperuma%20who%20Assaulted%20UPFA%20Pradeshiya%20Sabha%20Councillor%20Murugan...%20&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 Madura Ranwala UNP MP Palitha Thewarapperuma being taken to Fort Magistrate\u2019s court after surrendering to police. The minister came in with right leg covered by plaster claiming that he had had a fall (pic by U.K. Abeyratne) The Colombo Crime Division (CCD) yesterday took into custody Kalutara district UNP parliamentarian Palitha Thewapperuma when he &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=37627\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;UNP Parliamentarian Palitha Thewarapperuma who Assaulted UPFA Pradeshiya Sabha Councillor Murugan Pushpakumaran Surrenders to Police&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/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\/37627"}],"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=37627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37628,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37627\/revisions\/37628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}