{"id":58298,"date":"2018-03-12T22:41:32","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T03:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=58298"},"modified":"2018-03-12T21:48:50","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T02:48:50","slug":"burnt-down-madeena-muslim-hotel-renovated-in-12-hours-by-anamaduwa-residents-of-whom-majority-were-sinhalesepolice-arrest-8-persons-for-arson-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=58298","title":{"rendered":"Burnt Down &#8220;Madeena Muslim Hotel&#8221;  Renovated in 12 Hours By Anamaduwa Residents of whom Majority were Sinhalese;Police Arrest 8 Persons for Arson Attack."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\n By<\/p>\n<p>Camelia Nathaniel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The  Anamaduwa Police had arrested eight persons yesterday in connection  with the burning down of the Madeena Muslim Hotel in Anamaduwa last  Saturday\/sunday  night.<\/p>\n<p> The Police Media Spokesman\u2019s office told the Daily News last evening  that the police were in the process of recording statements from those  arrested.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p> The eight arrested suspects are scheduled to be produced before the Anamaduwa Magistrate\u2019s Court today.<br \/>\n According to police, the arrests were made based on CCTV footage recorded on a nearby camera.<\/p>\n<p> Preliminary investigations hinted at a political hand behind these  incidents. The Police is conducting further investigations to ascertain  whether they were instigated by a political group.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Anamaduwa traders\u2019 association and residents in the  area with the assistance of the police had renovated the Madeena Muslim  Hotel, which was destroyed in a petrol bomb attack, and reopened the  establishment 12 hours after the attack.<\/p>\n<p> It was reported that the majority of those who came to assist the  repair of the hotel were from the Sinhala community living in the area. <\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Daily News<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton58298\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D58298&amp;text=Burnt%20Down%20%26%238220%3BMadeena%20Muslim%20Hotel%26%238221%3B%20%20Renovated%20in%2012%20Hours%20By%20Anamaduwa%20Residents%20of%20whom%20Majority...%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 Camelia Nathaniel The Anamaduwa Police had arrested eight persons yesterday in connection with the burning down of the Madeena Muslim Hotel in Anamaduwa last Saturday\/sunday night. The Police Media Spokesman\u2019s office told the Daily News last evening that the police were in the process of recording statements from those arrested.<\/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\/58298"}],"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=58298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58299,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58298\/revisions\/58299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}