{"id":49181,"date":"2016-10-25T16:53:56","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T20:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=49181"},"modified":"2016-10-25T16:53:56","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T20:53:56","slug":"two-policemen-were-injured-when-they-tried-to-prevent-shopkeeper-being-attacked-by-sword-wielding-gang-in-chunnakam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=49181","title":{"rendered":"Two Policemen were Injured When They Tried to Prevent Shopkeeper Being Attacked by Sword Wielding Gang in Chunnakam."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\nLaw and Order and Southern Development Minister Sagala Ratnayake told Parliament yesterday the recent incident where two policemen received cut injuries at Chunnakam was not part of an organised campaign against police.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The minister said the policemen had had been caught in a clash between a trader and some of his rivals. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The rival group members were armed with swords and they attacked the trader. The policemen had intervened to save the trader and the attackers had turned on them, the Minister said.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Ratnayake, answering a question raised by MEP leader Dinesh Gunawardena, said the government was investigating the incident from several angles and those responsible for injuring the policemen would soon be identified and brought to justice.<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\nCourtesy:The Island<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton49181\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D49181&amp;text=Two%20Policemen%20were%20Injured%20When%20They%20Tried%20to%20Prevent%20Shopkeeper%20Being%20Attacked%20by%20Sword%20Wielding%20Gang%20in...%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>Law and Order and Southern Development Minister Sagala Ratnayake told Parliament yesterday the recent incident where two policemen received cut injuries at Chunnakam was not part of an organised campaign against police. The minister said the policemen had had been caught in a clash between a trader and some of his rivals.<\/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\/49181"}],"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=49181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49182,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49181\/revisions\/49182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}