{"id":39198,"date":"2015-03-04T19:36:37","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T00:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=39198"},"modified":"2015-03-04T19:36:37","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T00:36:37","slug":"yoshita-rajapaksa-tells-police-that-light-aircraft-was-given-as-a-present-to-him-by-film-producer-chandran-rutnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=39198","title":{"rendered":"Yoshita Rajapaksa Tells Police that Light Aircraft was Given as a Present to him by Film Producer Chandran Rutnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Hemantha Randunu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Colombo Crime Division (CCD) yesterday grilled former President Mahinda Rajapaksa\u2019s son Lt. Yoshitha on a light aircraft found some weeks back in a storeroom of a building belonging to the Economic Development Centre at Narahenpita.<\/p>\n<p> Yoshitha, in his statement to the CID, had said that the veteran film producer Chandran Ratnam whom he referred to as Uncle Ratnam had given it to him as a gift.<\/p>\n<p> Therefore, he intended to use it as an exhibit. The light aircraft was taken into custody by the police on January 14.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Police investigations revealed that it belonged to Yoshitha. In an earlier statement, Chandran Ratnam had said that Yoshitha had asked for the unserviceable light aircraft.<\/p>\n<p> Yoshitha was accompanied by his brother Namal Rajapaksa, MP to the CID, where he had to give a statement for about an hour.<\/p>\n<p> Yoshitha also had expressed his willingness to hand over the aircraft to the police.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nCourtesy:The Island<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton39198\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D39198&amp;text=Yoshita%20Rajapaksa%20Tells%20Police%20that%20Light%20Aircraft%20was%20Given%20as%20a%20Present%20to%20him%20by%20Film%20Producer%20Chandran%20Rutnam&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 Hemantha Randunu The Colombo Crime Division (CCD) yesterday grilled former President Mahinda Rajapaksa\u2019s son Lt. Yoshitha on a light aircraft found some weeks back in a storeroom of a building belonging to the Economic Development Centre at Narahenpita. Yoshitha, in his statement to the CID, had said that the veteran film producer Chandran Ratnam &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=39198\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Yoshita Rajapaksa Tells Police that Light Aircraft was Given as a Present to him by Film Producer Chandran Rutnam&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\/39198"}],"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=39198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39199,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39198\/revisions\/39199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}