{"id":61341,"date":"2018-10-29T19:18:24","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T23:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=61341"},"modified":"2018-10-29T19:18:24","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T23:18:24","slug":"ex-minister-arjuna-ranatunga-arrested-and-released-on-bail-after-petroleum-corp-trade-unions-strike-disrupts-fuel-distribution-in-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=61341","title":{"rendered":"Ex-minister Arjuna Ranatunga Arrested and Released on Bail After Petroleum Corp Trade Unions Strike Disrupts Fuel Distribution in Country."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Nuwan Senarathna <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>MP Arjuna Ranatunga was arrested yesterday by Colombo Crime Division over the shooting incident that resulted in one death at Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC), but was shortly released on bail. <\/p>\n<p>Police Spokesman SP Ruwan Gunasekara said Ranatunga was accused of being involved in the shooting incident, where a 34 year old man was killed and two others were injured, after Ranatunga\u2019s body guard allegedly opened fired at a group of protesters at the CPC premises when he tried to enter his office. <\/p>\n<p>Ranatunga was taken hostage inside the CPC premises, and had to be removed by the Special Task Force (STF). <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The trade unions of the CPC later demanded Ranatunga be arrested and launched a strike, disrupting fuel distribution countrywide and creating long queues of vehicles near filling stations.  Ranatunga was produced before the Colombo Magistrate last evening and granted Rs. 500,000 surety bail.<\/p>\n<p> Following the arrest, CPC trade unions called off the strike. CPC\u2019s Sri Lanka Freedom Party Workers Union\u2019s leader Bandula Saman Kumara said that operations of the CPC had resumed.<\/p>\n<p>He said by today morning, distribution of fuel would return to normal. \u201cWe have won our demand therefore the strike has been called off,\u201d he told Daily FT.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Daily FT<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton61341\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D61341&amp;text=Ex-minister%20Arjuna%20Ranatunga%20Arrested%20and%20Released%20on%20Bail%20After%20Petroleum%20Corp%20Trade%20Unions%20Strike%20Disrupts...%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 Nuwan Senarathna MP Arjuna Ranatunga was arrested yesterday by Colombo Crime Division over the shooting incident that resulted in one death at Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC), but was shortly released on bail. Police Spokesman SP Ruwan Gunasekara said Ranatunga was accused of being involved in the shooting incident, where a 34 year old man &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=61341\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Ex-minister Arjuna Ranatunga Arrested and Released on Bail After Petroleum Corp Trade Unions Strike Disrupts Fuel Distribution in Country.&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\/61341"}],"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=61341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61342,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61341\/revisions\/61342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}