{"id":65820,"date":"2019-10-02T08:40:05","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T12:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=65820"},"modified":"2019-10-02T08:40:05","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T12:40:05","slug":"justice-minister-thalatha-atukorale-urges-president-sirisena-to-take-action-against-suhada-gamlath-for-stating-publicly-that-two-ministers-had-tried-to-influence-him-into-arresting-gotabaya-rajapaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=65820","title":{"rendered":"Justice Minister Thalatha Atukorale Urges President  Sirisena to Take Action Against  Suhada Gamlath for Stating Publicly that two Ministers Had tried to Influence him into Arresting Gotabaya Rajapaksa."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By<br \/>\nYohan Perera<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chairman of the National Authority for Protection of Witnesses and Victims, Suhada Gamlath has said he would submit his resignation shortly but action is being taken by the Presidential Secretariat to remove him if he fails to do so by today, Justice and Law Reforms Minister Thalatha Athukorala said today.<\/p>\n<p>She told a conference that Mr. Gamlath had committed an offence as a public servant by talking to the media on certain issues.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI requested President Maithripala Sirisena to take action against him and the President\u2019s Office had assured me that action will be taken,\u201d the minister said. \u201cWe have no issues with his political ideology but he has violated procedures which a public servant should follow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Gamlath was quoted as saying that two ministers had exercised undue influence on him to arrest SLPP presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa. <\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Daily Mirror<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton65820\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D65820&amp;text=Justice%20Minister%20Thalatha%20Atukorale%20Urges%20President%20%20Sirisena%20to%20Take%20Action%20Against%20%20Suhada%20Gamlath%20for...%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 Yohan Perera Chairman of the National Authority for Protection of Witnesses and Victims, Suhada Gamlath has said he would submit his resignation shortly but action is being taken by the Presidential Secretariat to remove him if he fails to do so by today, Justice and Law Reforms Minister Thalatha Athukorala said today. She told &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=65820\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Justice Minister Thalatha Atukorale Urges President  Sirisena to Take Action Against  Suhada Gamlath for Stating Publicly that two Ministers Had tried to Influence him into Arresting Gotabaya Rajapaksa.&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\/65820"}],"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=65820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65821,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65820\/revisions\/65821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}