{"id":54451,"date":"2017-08-03T19:02:31","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T23:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=54451"},"modified":"2017-08-03T19:02:31","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T23:02:31","slug":"ex-pradeshiya-sabha-chairman-given-5-year-rigorous-imprisonment-sentence-for-accepting-rs-100000-bribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=54451","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Pradeshiya Sabha Chairman Given 5 Year Rigorous Imprisonment Sentence for Accepting Rs 100,000 Bribe."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Chitra Weerarathne<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Colombo High Court yesterday imposed five-year RI on the former chairman of the Rambewa Pradeshiya Sabha for accepting a bribe of Rs. 100,000 from a farmer to have him employed in Korea.<\/p>\n<p>The former Pradeshiya Sabha member, Rohit Madawe was convicted of all three charges in the indictment.<\/p>\n<p> The complainant is the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The court also imposed a fine of Rs. 40,000 on the convict.<\/p>\n<p>The bench comprised Colombo High Court Judge Gihan Kulatunga.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nCourtesy:The Island<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton54451\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D54451&amp;text=Ex-Pradeshiya%20Sabha%20Chairman%20Given%205%20Year%20Rigorous%20Imprisonment%20Sentence%20for%20Accepting%20Rs%20100%2C000%20Bribe.&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 Chitra Weerarathne The Colombo High Court yesterday imposed five-year RI on the former chairman of the Rambewa Pradeshiya Sabha for accepting a bribe of Rs. 100,000 from a farmer to have him employed in Korea. The former Pradeshiya Sabha member, Rohit Madawe was convicted of all three charges in the indictment. The complainant is &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=54451\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Ex-Pradeshiya Sabha Chairman Given 5 Year Rigorous Imprisonment Sentence for Accepting Rs 100,000 Bribe.&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\/54451"}],"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=54451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54452,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54451\/revisions\/54452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}